flipside wrote: > Slightly revisionist as apple didn't fight drm to begin with in fact > they actively embraced it as a way to garner favour with the record > companies and gain a monopoly in the audio market, they did start > championing it however when other companies started to deliver viable > iTunes competitors delivering drm free options . So kudos to them for > doing so but I wouldn't credit them with being the driving force.
No, I think you got that one wrong. During the time I was working in audio hardware and I can remember very well, that before iTunes came out, record companies told people there was no way they would ever license their catalog to anybody not using DRM. Remember how they tried to sue the hell out of Diamond for the Rio? Before Apple came along they openly refused to even license a catalog without exclusivity to the respective record company, I am pretty sure the DRM was a concession Apple had to make to get a somewhat decent catalog together at all. After all, there were no such offerings before they came along. Succeeding here was probably one of the most important contributors to their current success. And who would those "competitors delivering DRM free options" be? Amazon et al only cam along much later. They _announced_ their services pretty early, claiming to do away with DRM but of the big libraries actually being _available_ iTunes was the first one going DRM free, I believe. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96191 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
