Apple is DRM's Biggest Backer

Posted by Zonk on Friday January 12, 2007 @02:30AM from the set-my-mp3s-free dept.

parvenu74 writes "Arstechnica is running an article pointing out that while some pockets of the entertainment industry are experimenting with DRM-free distribution, Apple Inc, which announced that they have now sold over 2,000,000,000 songs on iTunes, is now the strongest pro-DRM force in digial media. From the article: 'DRM is dying. It's a statement being echoed with increasing frequency around the Web over the last few weeks, and is perhaps best articulated in this Billboard article. But there's a powerful force standing in the way of this DRM-free panacea, and it might not be the one you expect: Apple, Inc.'"

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Re:Dirty little secret by burndive · 2007-01-12 08:15 · Score: 0, Troll

Oh, I see, so if I buy another digital media player, I'm expected to put *lossless-sized* files with *128kbps-quality* content on it?
Do you not see how this still effectively locks the user to the iPod?

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