File this in the "What the Hell?" section...
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Knowing very little about the music business, and really only drawing from Baen's experience with e-books, it's gratifying to see someone else take the same approach. I can easily believe that a company selling media with no restrictions doing more business, and it's great that a company such as Apple, which I'd like to believe has some influence in the matter now, pushing for abolishing DRM.
The thing I find funny is if this happens, doesn't that basically invalidate the arguments put forward by the RIAA regarding piracy for the last few years? |
Woah, this seems so random. I'm confused.
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This landed in today's Boston Globe:
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Since jHymn stopped working after iTunes 6 was released, I've actually switched gears from mp3 to m4a to allow for some semblance of continuity between my iTunes-purchased music (m4p) and the music I've ripped myself. The problem is that my iTunes music is on one of the two hard drives I can't use right now thanks to my desktop shitting the bed, so, unless iTunes comes up with a way that I can download the music I've purchased and not have to go through miles of red tape for it, I'll be happy. I feel that music sales would probably increase slightly if there wasn't any DRM. Every music store would basically be on a level playing field, so it would really come down to who has the best presentation and who has the best deals for music. I am hard pressed to believe that kind of market would ever exist, and I would be especially surprised if that is Jobs' ideal market. From a businessman point of view. |
Oh...I had interpreted the article as Apple implying that it would turn a blind eye to pirated music or something, which would obviously be strange. I guess it makes logical sense :o
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I'm just surprised that Steve Jobs admitted to all of this, even IF he pushed the blame off onto the music labels. It makes a ton of sense to get rid of DRM because of the exact reasons he said: The majority of music purchased today is on compact discs, and none of those have protection embedded. Why push it on a small portion of an already declining market? |
I'm curious as to why Jobs is being as magnanimous as he's being. He probably thinks Apple would still win out on a level playing field should the third situation arise, and obviously he doesn't stand to lose much if things stay the same, and he would sure make more money if #2 happened.
Additional Spam: IGN's take on this. Quote:
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More DRM chastising, this time from Music Label executives:
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This is pretty interesting shit. I respect Jobs for taking such a stance and taking advantage of his position in this market to do so.
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