Not that I believe everything that Jobs says -far from it- but this little piece he published on Apple's site a year ago, calling for an end to DRM, would seem to support my case. See: http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/
What legal action would cause Apple to "allow" DRM removal? Harry C. Johnson wrote: > --- In [email protected], Eugenio Perea <euge...@...> wrote: >> Also, I'm pretty sure Apple never wanted DRM in iTunes. I believe it > was >> a requirement of the record companies in their neverending quest to >> infuriate their customers. Now that Apple is the leading distributor of >> music on the planet, they have enough clout to force the removal of DRM. > > Not true. Apple has been sued and criticized by the consumer > protection groups of several countries and the EU for their > monopolistic use of DRM to tie the iPod to iTunes and their lack of > willingness to allow others to license their DRM. They also went so > far as to invoke the DMCA to sue RealNetworks for providing software > that would allow the iPod to download music from Real in addition to > iTunes. Apple loves iTunes and DRM and its likely because of legal > action that they are allowing DRM removal. > > I provided links to related stories in an earlier post. If your > curious I can repost those or you can just do a google search. > > -Harry > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
