The Iron Yuppie

Users bypass copy protection on portable Napster

I'm not sure why this made such news. The "analog hole" is a known phenomenon. Until you have a system which is 100% DRMed until it comes out the speaker, you will always have problems with this. Actually, even then, you could put a high quality mic up to the speaker and record it back into digital. OR you could have some composer come along and listen to it and re-record it! Ok, that last one is a bit much, but the problem here is (and always will be) that our ears are not DRMed and there needs to be some conversion from a secure format to an insecure format for us to hear it. Welcome to the digital to analog world.