It could be argued it is now in Apple's interest to keep DRM. No DRM means you don't need an ipod to play the music you buy from Apple, and Apple isn't making money off the music that's for sure.
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 10:15 AM, John Settle <[email protected]>wrote: > mike wrote: > >> They are offering DRM-less mp3's >> because they had to. >> >> >> > Mike, > > I would at least give Apple the credit that DRM was a requirement of the > partnership with the music industry that gave the iTunes store access to the > music catalogs needed to make the venture viable way back when, 2001? Now > after years of labels slowly coming round, huge amounts of catalog are > available now without DRM. It just was never solely at Apples discretion > whether to have DRM or not. Sure, Apple could have insisted on no DRM from > the get go; but they would have had no where near the breath of content > offering and the iPod/iTunes revolution would have be quite different. > > John Settle > > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > -- Make sure you support your local CarbonONset programs! ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
