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Music Execs Say Apple's DRM Hurting Industry
EMB Numbers writes "C-Net says last year saw a 131 percent jump in digital sales, but overall the industry still saw about a 4 percent decline in revenue. Some executives at this week's Digital Music Forum East conference lashed out at Jobs, blaming Apple and its CEO for their troubles. The impression at the conference was that Jobs' call three weeks ago for DRM-free music was anything but sincere. As the article puts it, 'Apple has maintained a stranglehold on the digital music industry by locking up iTunes music with DRM ... and "it's causing everybody else who is participating in the marketplace — the other service providers, the labels, the users — a lot of pain. If they could simply open it up, everybody would love them.""
If you really think Jobs doesn't love his DRM so much, why does Apple refuse to license it to anyone else?
It's called a vertical monopoly. They didn't have it before, but they've nearly got it now. Presuming his anti-DRM stance isn't complete and utter bullshit lip service, removing DRM hurts iTunes' competitors more than it hurts iTunes.
1. m4a's wont run in linux with drm
2. if you reformat your computer after 3 times, apple thinks you ran it on 3 computers
That be nice if they ATLEAST made it like activating windows xp, where its activated based on the hardware and not whats on the hard drive.
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs always have gay sex together and hate linux (yes I know about mac osx)