Steve on Online Music DRM
Today Steve Jobs released this open letter discussing the current status of selling DRMed music online and several posibilites for the future of onine music distribution.
The crux of the piece is that Apple would sell DRM free music if the big 4 music labels allowed this on the iTunes store, indeed Apple would prefer this to selling DRMed music.
It’s a fascinating read for several reasons. It’s an interesting new perspective on the business. But even more interesting is that Steve deemed this topic worthy enough to release this kind of statement. It’s not often you see this kind of open communication from a company like Apple, especially Steve himself.
February 17th, 2007 at 9:48 am
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