Labels Push for a Unified DRM Standard

thejoelpatrol writes "Bad news for Apple fanatics but good news for all the crazy slashdotters who want an iPod but feel dirty using Apple's DRM: the labels are getting together and insisting that online stores standardize their DRM methods. Being the providers of the music, the labels clearly wield a lot of power, but so does Apple: without iTunes, the online music business is next to nothing. Will Apple give in? Not if they can help it -- they're on top of the world. Before anyone messes it up, AAC is an open format, while the Fairplay DRM standard is not."

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Re:The labels

[Anonymous Writer]

The labels can go fuck themselves.

Apparently there are some photos circulating the net demonstrating how that can be done, I hear.

Re:Teenage Jon didn't krak CSS

[timster]

Personally, I think we should get away from actually believing that a college student in Finland sat down and wrote an operating system.

A programmer from IBM passed the confidential trade-secret information for emulating UNIX to "Linux Tovald" who uploaded the program to an FTP site.

If you think a college student could just sit down and emulate an industry standard operating system, then you should go work for The O'Reilly Factor and not spend so much time trolling, troll.