On Boing Boing today:

It’s too bad that all those musicians can’t release their music in a listener-friendly license. Oh wait — they can.

It’s too bad you can’t convert Apple’s DRM’d files to a different format. Oh wait — you can.

This is a good example of what I call “snorting the Whuffie”, where the pundit loses all sense of proportion and scale, mistaking these electrons and photons moving around the globe as being on the same level of importance as, say, air.

As much as I like the “wonderful things” the Boing Boing crew uncover in the intarwebtubes, occasionally I have to shake my head in bewilderment at the hyper-hyperbole.

Don’t like Apple’s music-killing DRM scheme? Don’t buy music from them.

But I guess that would be too easy, too reasonable, and not seeking publicity enough.