I posted recently about assumed identity and it’s impact on obtaining information about television programs I watch (via OTA broadcast) which direct me to a website I can’t access, and the impact on my music buying habits.

Phil Windley has offered up his comments on my frustrations, and associated the concept of assumed identity - or, as he eloquently puts it, presence (I like that term, it carries weighty connotations with it) - with Digital Rights Management.

One interesting side note to the whole issue of assumed identity and presence as an arbiter in DRM models is the case where I want to buy a certain album from iTunes, but it is only available to customers in a certain country. So I go to another provider such as an online store and buy the exact same album, for less, in it’s physical form, using the same payment card that iTunes won’t let me use to buy music.

And the music still ends up on my iPod.

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