Yeah, but...
The album is for sale at iTunes... $11.99 (or by song at $.99 per) for 13 songs, plus a video interview.
I fail to see what would stop me from, if I had the SLIGHTEST desire to listen to Coldplay, downloading the songs and burning a disk, which I could then rip into MP3's.
I'm afraid I just don't get it. Maybe, as someone else on the thread suggested, this is all a bad joke?
You're quite correct, there's nothing stopping you, besides taste. And I've already seen perfect, bit-for-bit copies of the CD (much better quality than what you get from iTunes) floating around the usual file trading sites, where the price is $0.00.
there is even an easier way to convert the supposedly uncrackable mp4 format.....just the program ijukebox.
In a minute or so, all itunes files are converted to mp3s and sound perfect.