Impulse

I’m absolutely bounc­ing with unbri­dled delight at the release of Jessica Simpson’s song, “A Public Affair” on Yahoo! No, I haven’t sud­denly become a Jessica Simpson fan. In fact, I’ve never really lis­tened to her music. My joy at the release is Yahoo’s deci­sion to release this song as an MP3 with­out DRM! Go buy your­self a copy today — only $2. (For those not in the know, DRM stands for Digital Rights Management — it’s an evil tech­nol­ogy that pre­vents you from lis­ten­ing to your music on any music player you’d like (as in the case of ipods), or ren­ders your music col­lec­tion unplayable because of some bug or crash (as hap­pened to me), and gen­er­ally treats you, the cus­tomer, like an unscrupu­lous, pirat­ing crim­i­nal instead of respect­ing that most peo­ple are not all that bad. Guilty with no option for innocent).