DRM = Dumb Restrictive Malarky

CNet reports about some legal trouble for Apple and Sony in France. The heart of the matter: buying music from them forces you to listen to it through only their media player.

My take: I hate sue-happy people. But I also hate DRM (Digital Rights Management).

My less-wishy-washy-take: If the lawsuit has any impact, it won't help the non-French world anyway. I really don't care about this particular legal action. The marketplace must strongly show its disapproval of DRM. But to do so, we need a non-DRM alternative, which I discussed last week when I wrote about mp3tunes.com.

So what do we do?