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Steve Jobs and the State of Legal Music Downloads

Posted by pudge on 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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  1. Re:The protection doesn't work by zeux · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    it's just not posible to protect something from millions of hackers...

    Excuse me, it's very possible.

    Try to encrypt simething with PGP.

    Unless you give your key, I don't know any hacker that would be able to decrypt the data.

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  2. Subscription Service by StarryTripper · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Some had mentioned how a $1 a track is far too much and wonder why a subscription service for downloads not offered. I've came across two such subscriptions services that I've never seen mentione here on /. One offers $35/month unlimited downloads (plus other deals, just hit music, nights only, weekend only), the other (which I subscribe to is $15/month for 1000 downloads (though limited to 128Kbps generally) or $0.01/MB. The best part being the ability to choose bitrate and format. Though it's worth noting that the files are archived as 384Kbps MP3's, and are transcoded to what ever is specified for download. http://allofmp3.com (Russian) http://weblisten.com/ (Spanish) Both will need to have linked click to switch to English