Jobs: an end to DRM? Step would require support of major music labels.(Steve Jobs)(digital rights management)(Brief article)

Macworld, April, 2007 by Dalrymple, Jim

Imagine a world without digital rights management (DRM) restrictions dictating how and where we can enjoy our downloaded digital music. In a bold--and highly unusual--move, Apple CEO Steve Jobs recently suggested such a dramatic switch in an open letter on Apple's Web site. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "If the big four music companies would license Apple their music without the requirement that it be protected with a DRM, we would switch to selling only DRM-free music on our iTunes Store," Jobs wrote in a missive titled "Thoughts on Music." "Every iPod ever made will play this DRM-free music." Jobs's comments come at a time when consumers and European countries are pressuring Apple to loosen the tight ties between music sold on the iTunes Store and Apple's...

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