Steve Jobs shares his thoughts on the future of digital music, and SURPRISE! He hates encoded and protected downloads just as much as the rest of the known universe.
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Jobs on DRM
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Steve Jobs shares his thoughts on the future of digital music, and SURPRISE! He hates encoded and protected downloads just as much as the rest of the known universe.
corey 1:15 pm on 6 February 2007 Permalink
He’s a sharp guy. I read a Roling Stone article with Jobs a couple of years ago and, while I got the impression that the interviewer was baiting Steve into some sort of iTunes-Is-Gonna-Kick-Everyone’s-Ass tirade, his answers were level-headed, gracious, and well thought out.
iTunes, without the ball and chain | Addison Road 2:40 pm on 6 January 2009 Permalink
[...] In some ways, I think Apple was paying the penalty for being first to market. They made a deal with the devil to get major record labels to agree to release their catalogs to the iTunes music store, and the price was DRM lockdown. Once the model proved successful, other distributors (amazon, for example) were able to negotiate much more favorable terms for their own download sales. Steve Jobs said as much almost two years ago. [...]