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Breaking: Steve Jobs lashes out against DRM’d music
Whoah! WHOAH! Steve Jobs says DRM doesn’t work in an open letter on Apple’s site, explaining why copy-protected music (like the kind sold on iTunes), is ultimately futile in the face of unprotected music CDs and downloaded MP3s.
Expect this seemingly simply open letter to have huge repercussions in the next few weeks. Is this the beginning of the real end for Digital Rights Management?
(Quick postscript: Joe Gross and I have been talking and after letting our heads return from their exploding states, I mentioned that I think this may be part of a larger salvo against Microsoft. If you truly believe that Microsoft is as vulnerable now as it’s ever been, this may be Apple’s sly way of saying, “We don’t want to lock down your content the way Microsoft does with Vista.” If Apple is smart, it will strike fast and hard while the Redmond giant tries to figure out what went wrong with the Zune and why people aren’t more excited about Windows Vista.)
(SeekingAlpha link courtesy Dale Roe.)
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