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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:Digital copying is ALWAYS possible. by Tumbleweed · · Score: 0, Troll

    > Smart guys. If you can play it, you can copy it.

    And it took Apple's _PhD's_ to figure this out. Hilarious.

  2. Re:Those are shorts? by Valiss · · Score: 1, Troll

    Yeah, fashion's a bitch.

    Thank god I'm a geek.

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  3. Re:Legal music downloading... by idsofmarch · · Score: 0, Troll

    But there in lies the problem with subscription services, you don't own this music, you loose the music when you are away from the internet, you can't download it to a player. Futhermore, ff you don't have broadband it must take a long time to get that 1 gig cache, which means you spend a significant amount of time twiddling your thumbs waiting for your music to begin playing. Plus, if Rhapsody fails you're doomed. Basically, this is a renters solution.

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