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Steve Jobs and the State of Legal Music Downloads

Posted by pudge on Tuesday December 9, 2003 @05:19AM from the if-it-is-not-possible-then-please-drop-your-sharing-limits-in-itunes dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Rolling Stone has published an interview with Steve Jobs about the current state of the music industry. He is a smart man, that guy. 'When we first went to talk to these record companies -- about eighteen months ago -- we said, "None of this technology that you're talking about's gonna work. We have Ph.D.s here who know the stuff cold, and we don't believe it's possible to protect digital content."'"

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Re:Someone understands! by interstellar_donkey · 2003-12-09 06:42 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Yeah. But what if somebody who was trying to sell you a car told you that even though there was a 'feature' in that car that allowed you to effortlessly go 5 or 10 mph over the speed limit was "corrosive to your character"?

He may understand why you think there is nothing wrong with downloading mp3s, but he still will villify you because he thinks what your doing is stealing.

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