Steve Job's Editorial on DRM
Steve Jobs wrote an interesting piece called "Thoughts on Music", which really should be titled "Thoughts on DRM".
Jobs focuses on the future of digital music and offers 3 scenarios:
1. Everything stays the same. Online music services lock customers into different and competing DRM schemes.
2. Apple licenses FairPlay (Apples proprietary DRM) to other companies
3. The music industry decides to license music without DRM just as they are doing with CD's now.
Reality distortion field aside, Jobs offers a candid insight in laymans terms on how DRM works and how it affects all of us and how easy things could be if the record industry stopped relying on FUD.
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