| Steve Jobs: Time to say bye bye DRM |
| Written by Kostas Tzounopoulos | |
| Tuesday, 06 February 2007 | |
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Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, posted an article about DRM in music. He tries to move the pressure he gets from European consumer groups to the big four record labels saying iTunes is ready to go DRM-free if they agree. If not, he reminds us 2.5 of them belongs to Europeans also...
Users according to Steve Jobs can get their music from CDs and other sources and only 22 songs per iPod -ever-sold comes from iTunes. This makes the FairPlay DRM tracks bought from it, not a good reason for someone to keep using iPod. Apple is pressed to open its DRM so products of other companies can use it, but in case it is broken by someone or leaked on the internet he says it would be difficult all of these partners to fix it fast and be fine with their commitment to the content owners. So Apple prefers to move away entirely from DRM and forget all about the hack and patch game! What do you think is more close after this article? The end of DRM in music? The European consumer groups to the big four companies ? Perhaps its the same thing? Read Steve Jobs article . Related articles: |
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| Last Updated ( Tuesday, 06 February 2007 ) |