DRM(Digital Rights Management) will
be implemented for MP3. So perhaps
there will be no more sharing of MP3:s
to friends or at the gnutella network
in the future.

Yes, MP3 music technology is getting
a makeover aimed at blocking
unauthorized copying.
Thomson and Fraunhofer, the companies
that license and own the patents behind
the MP3 digital music technology
has decided this.

Read the story at news.com

You can also contibute to open source
by starting to use OGG Vorbis .
I think thatś the way to go.

Vorbis is a relatively new music
technology, that already has got
some support for hardware .