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Jobs to Labels- Lose the DRM & We'll Talk Price

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the ten-bucks-a-gig dept.

eldavojohn writes "Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been talking smack about DRM and has recently issued a verbal offer to major music lables stating that if they are willing to lose the DRM, he'd be willing to raise his 99 cent price for those iTunes songs. These tracks (such as the recent EMI deal) would also have better sound quality & cost about 30 cents more."

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  1. lbaels by 1019 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "lables"?

    Ach, the poor spelling... it hurts. Make it stop!

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  2. Re:Are consumers that dumb? by sanityfeactory · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah that's never happened before. They give us a war for oil and then use that to increase the price of gas. They over sell corn futures and starve central America. They sell you cable TV and riddle it with commercials. Pretty soon there will be a threshold tax and we'll all be living outside our houses so that we can afford to own them.

  3. Why hasn't anybody written a workaround for DRM? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't understand why nobody has written a DRM workaround for iTunes yet -- it seems pretty obvious to me. Just concoct an AppleScript to send iTunes' "burn disc" to a disk image and transcode on the fly with, say, lame.