Poll of the Day - Does Apple seriously want to sell DRM-free media?
Summary: Steve Jobs has called on the music industry to ditch DRM. Do you think that Apple seriously wants to do this or is it a way to deflect the DRM debate off off Apple and onto the studios?
Steve Jobs has called on the music industry to ditch DRM. Do you think that Apple seriously wants to do this or is it a way to deflect the DRM debate off off Apple and onto the studios?
If Apple is serious about wanting to see a DRM-free world, why does it lock iTunes users to the iPod ecosystem?
How would going DRM-free change the music download industry? What would be the effect on piracy?
Thoughts?
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Talkback
Its about CRAP not DRM
No one is giving up DRM. Get over it. It ensures artists get paid. (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA)
CRAP what ever that means ties the itunes music to your i pod and it is proprietary technology. CRap stands for Content Rights Access Protocol or some nonesense like that.
Focus on the Crap and the DRM will take care of its self.
The EU is a bunch of whiny anti-competitive freeloaders anyway.
They will call it cultured.
It is about laying the blame elsewhere
Leaves him looking like the good guy (he hopes to the Europeans at least), all the while stuffing his pockets. "I have no choice"
If he actually cared about customers, he'd license FairPlay, to make the intolerable situation of incompatible DRM's go away.
You'll note, however, he is unwilling to give up his cash cow.
I don't think you can get more hypocritical.
100% Spot On!
It's all bait and switch
All those record profits from iPod sales and music store song sales into the billions didn't come from having an OPEN ecosystem.
Then license FairPlay to others...
Jobs is a liar plain and simple. Stock options? What stock options?
Nice bias but it doesn't work
competitive advantage can go right out the window because dishonest people try
to hack.
If Apple is the bad guy, why are all other player manufacturers doing the same
thing?
Slam Microsoft and Sony, as well.
It is the record industry that is putting the requirement on and you can tell by
their response.
NATG, you are religously fanatic about your anti-Apple bias and your post is proof
of it because you don't insist that Sony and MIcrosoft do the same thing.
Of course he would...
See my small cartoon:
http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2007/02/if_he_could_he_.html
Bye,
Oliver
Thank Adrian
Seriously, Steve Jobs' appraisal makes perfect sense.
It could happen. And then Vista would become mostly irrelevant.
Readme
iTunes users to the iPod ecosystem?"
Adrian, I know we can all try to read between the lines, but have you even read
Stephen Job's letter?
Yes, I have ...
Serious, yes, wants to no
Instead of move into a highly successful emulation of the MaybePlays ecosystem whereby each vendor tries to be consistent with firmware upgrades, player upgrades, the whole headache, it would be much easier for Apple to simply drop DRM if it could.
Of course, they won't drop AAC without DRM to go with MP3 since every little hindrence to keep people on Ipods will be highly desired. I know my iRiver doesn't play AAC, I would have to convert it from AAC to MP3, a hastle millions won't want to bother with, just buy another iPod.
TripleII