ROKR update:

So it seems the first critisms of this new handset are now out into the wild, probably even before anyone has had a real chance to try the phone out in real life.

One of the biggest critisms of the ROKR cell phone concern the DRM ( digital rights management ) system it employs. The DRM is supposed to stop you from playing copywriten tracks that you haven’t paid for or don’t have permission to listen to for free.

So there is a bit of a fuss being kicked up about why the DRM on the ROKR will limit the amount of tracks you can download to the phone to 100, even if you don’t exceed the 512MB storage capacity of the handset.

This does seem very strange, and would be annoying to someone like me who has well over a 100 ‘favorite’ tracks at the moment, even if there is enough space for me to store more music, the DRM software will not allow me to.

One does have to ask ‘why?’.

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