Jobs Says People Don't Want to 'Rent' Music

eldavojohn writes "PhysOrg is running a piece on a recent speech by Apple CEO Steve Jobs about DRM free music. While we know that Jobs is a self proclaimed proponent of DRM free music who's not all talk, he's now said that 'by the end of this year, over half of the songs we offer on iTunes we believe will be in DRM-free versions. I think we're going to achieve that.' Jobs pointed out what's obvious to us, the consumers, but isn't obvious to the music industry — 'People want to own their music.' He also dismissed subscription based music as a failure, and claimed a lot of other music labels are intrigued by the EMI deal."

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Re:Memo

[ka-klick]

Well, I don't know about Netwerk, et al, but I emailed CD Baby about it as soon as the EMI announcement came down the pike and they said they were already working on it w/ Apple, so at least hopefully soon you'll be able to get DRM-free versions of the songs I have up on iTunes so far. Or you could just buy the CDs now and rip the files :-)

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/ viewAlbum?playListId=218127260
and
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/ viewAlbum?playListId=218215721

So far they just have the regular setup.

(the cds are here)

http://cdbaby.com/cd/bryanbaker1

http://cdbaby.com/cd/bryanbaker2