Steve Jobs drops a bomb

By Mark on Wednesday 7 February 2007 at 10:22

Finally, someone is talking sense about the pathetic mess that is Digital Rights Management. And not only that, but it's someone who's actually in a position to do something about it.

Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer Inc, published an open letter yesterday stating that he thinks DRM should be abolished and that Apple would happily embrace DRM-free music downloads.

At the moment we have countless different, incompatible systems to protect music that's downloaded legally, which is basically the equivalent of making CD's fail to play on any CD player other than the one you owned when you bought them. And who would put up with that?

When you buy something, it should be yours to do whatever you want with. Sure, some people will give copies to their friends, but we've been making mix tapes and CD's for each other since home recorders became cheap enough to own in the 60s, and that certainly hasn't done the music industry any harm.

Hopefully this letter from the man who was (arguably) responsible for the whole digital music revolution will make the record execs think again. If not, their loss...

1 comment:

On Wednesday 7 February 2007 at 14:05, Dorri said:

But record companies are struggling to make money and all they've ever wanted to do was bring music to the people and look after struggling musicians.

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