I hadn't thought of this...

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PBS | I, Cringely . September 7, 2006 - Apple controls Amazon?:

Frankly, I'm on the side of Apple on this one, because I like lower prices and tend to think that they discourage piracy much more than does the hated Digital Rights Management. With my kids on their 400th viewing of Shark Tale, I'd far rather pay $9.99 for a movie I know I can play than grab one for free that I'm not sure I can. On a dollars-per-hour basis, it is still cheap.

And while my kids are in the room, let's pull up the single greatest selling point for digital downloads that has been missed by every story to date -- fingerprints. I'm not talking about reverent movie buff fingerprints, but the brutal peanut butter-and-Doritos fingerprints of a frenzied two year-old in need of his Dora the Explorer fix.

Probably half of the DVDs at our house have problems being read -- problems that don't appear at all on the dozens of Arthur and Clifford episodes I captured and now play through my MediaMVP network box. For families with small children -- millions of families in the U.S. alone -- having movies and TV shows on a server, safe from destruction by little fingers, is a huge argument in favor of electronic delivery.

but frankly, I should have, given the # of cds my car has destroyed, the # of tapes my last two cars ate, or most applicably, the # of records I *personally* scratched to hell on my turntable or flinging them about like some air-hockey puck across the floor.