I like a band called Blindside, their music is inspiring, their sound and lyrics are unique. In fact, thats what I like in a rock band, originality and quality of lyrics above all. I tend to like European bands more than American bands because their music is, most of the time, unique. Truth needs to be said, a lot of American bands are unique as well. Hey, sorry, I'm breaking apart from my main point here. The point is the excerpt that follows.

Also, all tracks sold by this web site has no DRM or copy protection built in. DRM is easily circumvented anyway and just puts obstacles in the way of enjoying music. We treat our customers with respect and do not automatically assume you are criminals. We know you're smart enough to understand that buying music, rather than stealing it, is the right way to go.

Thinking about Linux, and the mindset it promotes: 'free', 'sharing' and 'open source', I think that for some artist it might be good to sell DRM-Free music. Simple logic is used, they won't loose the customers who buy DRM protected music, they will buy anyways, because when they buy, they have no clue of what DRM is or simply don't care, in the majority of the cases. But, the people who do care about this, have an extra push to buy an album, an album who they otherwise wouldn't have thought of buying. Also, theres the fact of one of the points expressed in the excerpt above, DRM can be easily circumvented anyways, if someone is going to do something illegal with their music, they will do, with or without DRM.

Now, is DRM-Free music as important to you? Do you think this is non-relevant to the way we buy our electronic albums? Have I got too much Linux into me lately?

Updated, to better reflect the point of the story, I often have trouble staying in topic, as you can see with my first paragraph. :D