Apple is DRM's Biggest Backer

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.'"

Comments

War

[Anonymous Coward]

These days wars happen at economic level. FI, if you want to fight a country you are dissatistfied with, you stop buy products created in this country, or whos materials are bought from this country. Just go buy some good cheap chinese alternative instead.

So bush sending warriors and trolls to Iraq is a red herring.

Re:Dirty little secret

[burndive]

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?