What changed the world of music listening more than 10 years ago? Nope, not the drm locked down life style lock in gilded cage device….. you have to go back at least 3 years before such things….

"The RIAA's Associate Director of Anti-Copyright infringement initially said the MPMan had "no function other than playing material that was stolen from record companies." He later said it was "a unique device. It's something that we haven't seen on the market before.""

Of course revisions to history would have it otherwise.

For me though the real game changer was this little device http://arstechnica.com/reviews/01q4/sonicblue/riovolt-1.html The SP100 could hold so much spoken word/old time radio that I hardly had to change the disc more than once a week. That was over 10 years ago..again…before the much lauded lockin device. Also, it is still in use today for road trips and the like. Drm free luvin with no lock in to software or such as…now that is something to celebrate.

"The number of American adults is about 230 million, meaning that one in every 99.1 adults is behind bars.

Incarceration rates are even higher for some groups. One in 36 adult Hispanic men is behind bars, based on Justice Department figures for 2006. One in 15 adult black men is, too, as is one in nine black men ages 20 to 34."