Charles Cooper wrote an interesting article for CNET.com about DRM, piracy and the quality of the music being produced today. His claim is that the decline in music sales isn’t necessarily attributed to piracy or lack of DRM, but rather that the quality of music isn’t worth paying for.

Blaming peer-to-peer technology has become the convenient undertaking of our times. But it’s useful to recall that people didn’t stop buying books or maps when the Xerox machine hit. Customers will pay for worthwhile products, even if they can get free lower-quality copies.

There’s a better reason to explain what’s gone wrong. It’s the product.

Read the rest of the article, ”Forget DRM: It’s The Music.”