Once there was a man with a vision. A vision of a world where digital music wasn’t locked in a digital-rights stranglehold, where sclerotic, hidebound record companies weren’t fighting increasingly desperate rearguard actions against “pirates” raiding their imaginary profits, where any song can play on any player at any time. In this utopian dream, the acronym “DRM” would just be a relic to remind us of the bad old days, like the abandoned slave forts on the African coast, or Wrigley Field. This hallucinatory non-DRM world lay before him, so real he could almost hear it.

Of course, this man made a fortune from the largest DRM-protected music racket in the world. He wasn’t in a particular hurry to bring that dream to life.

But why wait for him? The Philips GoGear 2GB MP3 Player doesn’t care where your MP3s and WMAs came from, just where they’re going. And they’re going pretty much everywhere in the GoGear’s compact, lightweight, durable magnesium chassis. The rechargeable Li-ion battery keeps the beat going on for 10 hours per charge, and the SuperPlay and Superscroll navigation features let you hone in on the (ahem, legally acquired) jamzz of your choice. It’s like the future, if by “future” you mean “six months ago”.

Our visionary dreamer-man said, given the chance, he’d open up his company’s DRM-protected music so it could play on devices made by competing companies. Will you be ready when that great trumpet sounds, and that wondrous emancipation comes? With the Philips GoGear 2GB MP3 Player, you will be. And in the meantime, we’re sure you can find something to listen to on it.

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