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Steve Jobs wants to rid iTunes of DRM
Could iTunes sell non-DRM music in the future? That would be a pretty big change, but Steve Jobs has come out and advocated just that. With many groups in favor of disposing of DRM altogether, dubbing it a poor solution to piracy, causing more problems than it fixes. Some even dub it pointless. Interestingly, some thing that with vocal support as high up as Steve Jobs might be enough to signal a change in the way the media companies view it:
Jobs' comments are the beginning of the end for music DRM, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania professor Peter Fader predicted. He also agreed with von Lohmann that ridding the movie industry of DRM will be a tougher battle for file-sharing advocates.
On top of various complaints from other manufacturers of mp3 players and millions of consumers, it makes a lot of sense for Apple to do this. To that end, he's asking the consumers to do some of the leg work, telling them urge groups like UMG, EMI, Sony BMG and Warner to abandon DRM. Getting a company like Apple to say they'll drop DRM is one thing. Getting the biggest players in the industry to actually do it is another.
Jobs' comments are the beginning of the end for music DRM, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania professor Peter Fader predicted. He also agreed with von Lohmann that ridding the movie industry of DRM will be a tougher battle for file-sharing advocates.
On top of various complaints from other manufacturers of mp3 players and millions of consumers, it makes a lot of sense for Apple to do this. To that end, he's asking the consumers to do some of the leg work, telling them urge groups like UMG, EMI, Sony BMG and Warner to abandon DRM. Getting a company like Apple to say they'll drop DRM is one thing. Getting the biggest players in the industry to actually do it is another.
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Michel Merlin
on February 10, 2007 3:14 PM |
Big ones (RIAA and UMG, EMI, Sony, BMG, Warner...) are completely against evolution and progress. They would have jailed Gutenberg (when with print he divided by 100 the price of coying a book).Versailles, Sat 10 Feb 2007 22:14:45 +0100 |
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