mike wrote:
They are offering DRM-less mp3's
because they had to.
Mike,
I would at least give Apple the credit that DRM was a requirement of the
partnership with the music industry that gave the iTunes store access to
the music catalogs needed to make the venture viable way back when,
2001? Now after years of labels slowly coming round, huge amounts of
catalog are available now without DRM. It just was never solely at
Apples discretion whether to have DRM or not. Sure, Apple could have
insisted on no DRM from the get go; but they would have had no where
near the breath of content offering and the iPod/iTunes revolution would
have be quite different.
John Settle
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