I would never BUY DRM'd music, but if you are getting it for free what is the harm in it? So what if you can't transfer the music to another device? You have not lost anything, you've not spent money on that format instead of another? Seems to me like finally there is going to be a legal try-before-you-buy scheme for music!

The same music is sold on non-copy protected CDs. Does it make *any* sense to copy protect downloads?

It does not matter what DRM scheme is imposed. People will either respect it or break it. Nokia and Universal have no control over what happens to that music, once it is released to users' phones.

As for Plays for Sure, there is already (gee, in late 2007, go figure!) a crack for it: FairUse4WM.

If you want to play your music only on your Nokia phone, you're certainly welcome to do so. Unless they disable bluetooth, or something equally drastic, those music files can be transferred and their DRM removed.

This is grade school stuff. I'd like to be able to upload mp3's to my phone, then send them in MMS form to other mobes. Also, I'd like to take a 30 second clip of and mp3, and convert it to ringtone.

I'm not sure how this goes in the UK, but in the US, such "experimenting" by mobile customers is highly discouraged.