Comments on: Steve Jobs: “Thoughts on Music”

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By: Khaled

Khaled — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 07:16:46 +0000

Apple just announced DRM-free music from EMI.
A step in the right direction.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 01:53:32 +0000

It’s about time someone u[ top in business spoke out against DRM, it’s one of the most annoying, inneffective things ever used to combat piracy.

By: SebZeNorse

SebZeNorse — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:01:50 +0000

As a norwegian patriot, I just wanted to add: Go Norway! But it’s nice to see that the spearhead of digital music commerce is saying no to DRM. It proves how, as stated, cumbersome it really is. But until it is efficiently removed, I’ll stick to my CDs.

By: Hidoshi

Hidoshi — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:50:46 +0000

It’s essentially showing that DRM is useless. It’s not effective in the first place because 90% of music on your music player is probably pirated anyway, so why even bother? It’s a waste of time and money.

By: Evan

Evan — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:56:30 +0000

Its not “ending” copyright protection exactly, its only saying that if music companies would allow DRM free music, like all the CD’s they make are, it would allow for more companies to jump into this bandwagon and allow for a more open market. As Steve said in the article, if 90% of their music isn’t protected, what would that small percentage of protected software do?

By: warrior_monk721

warrior_monk721 — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:03:07 +0000

WHAT!?!? end copyright protection!
Is this guy for free markets? not paying people for stuff? does this guy have a brain? or does he hate musicians?
maybe i don’t quite understand fully what’s going on here?

By: Chris Giddings

Chris Giddings — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:58:58 +0000

Apparently Universal Records has already spoken out against removing DRM from internet downloads by saying that DRM is “essential to competitive advantage, and combatting piracy”.

EMI is the largest label rethinking the DRM approach publicly and they haven’t made a decision yet. I am of course happy to continue purchasing from the iTS regardless of DRM encumberment of my purchases, but it’d be nice to know if Apple would provide a utility to remove the DRM from the files purchased prior to any decision to remove DRM. Does that make sense?

Anyway, I agree with some of Steve’s thoughts, though I feel some of it is fluff, some of it is redirecting of criticism, and most of it is truly altruistic in motive.

By: Kaji

Kaji — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:30:20 +0000

I have to agree with the “being locked in” issue. I still have a good 50 or so WMA files that are nigh useless to me that are left over from when I switched back to the Mac platform after college. Being able to switch and take all the stuff with you for effectively the cost of a CD isn’t a bad deal.

By: Dr. Mobius

Dr. Mobius — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:12:56 +0000

I would imagine that as long as the labels require Apple and the others to have the DRM, Norway and anyone else who doesn’t like it will lose their online music stores.

I can see this going two ways. Either the people will petition their government to reverse the ruling on DRM so they can have their legal online music back. Or they’ll do as Jobs suggests and petition the labels to get rid of DRM.

Either way, it’ll be up to the consumers to decide how this plays out.