I couldn't sleep so I've been reading some stuff online. In the same news story, I found both of these quotes:
"Currently, music purchased at Apple Inc.'s iTunes Store, for example, is wrapped in Apple's proprietary version of Digital Rights Management technology known as "FairPlay" and can only be played on the company's iPod devices. Songs purchased from rival online stores that carry different DRM technology cannot be played on iPods."
and
"Earlier this week, Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs called on record labels to abandon their requirement for online music to use DRM, which is designed to limit unauthorized copying. Jobs said such restrictions have done little to slow music piracy and eliminating them would open up the online music marketplace."
Am I the only one who sees a conflict between those two messages? I guess there's just not another option to placate record labels that doesn't lock iTunes users into iPods and visa versa, right? I mean, don't get me wrong, an anti-DRM message from Jobs is a good thing. I just wish that would carry into his company's practices.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070209/ap_en_mu/emi_unprotected_music
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