The DMCA is federal law, and no mere purveyor of protected works has the authority to cast off responsibility for circumvention of technological measures that effectively control access to works such seller may be involved in distributing.
Incitement of us peons to circumvent DMCA provisions, e.g., your "[B]urn[] your purchased songs and playlists to CD" must surely be associated an iron-clad "Get Out of Jail Free" card, lest rightsholder-campaign-contribution-supported prosecutors not be able to restrain themselves, seeing anything less than a tall stack of signed, written okie-dokies from each individual copyright owner--scarce as hen's teeth, I'm told--whose works have been so copied to CD per Bennett's instructions.
By the way, do we know that Bennett's instructions toward CD copying of such protected works are meant to preclude copying to DVD, other media, capture via means that are either dependent on or independent of acoustical methods, or capture to standards other than Red Book?
HF
“The DMCA is federal law, and no mere purveyor of protected works has the authority to cast off responsibility for circumvention of technological measures that effectively control access to works such seller may be involved in distributing.”
I totally agree.
This DRM stuff has become a mess. On one hand, originating artists deserve copyright protections, and, on the other, purchasers of their art deserve to get what they pay for. So far, no one has found a practical solution to copyright infringement.
My basic solution is as Amazon and others are doing and that is to make music and other works of art easy enough and cheap enough to purchase and make the whole process hassle free as possible. All the other problems like peer-to-peer are something for law enforcement to enforce and in the infomration age that is nearly impossible to do.