Rants And Ramblings About Mobile Technology

This is a bit surprising at first, but after all Apple had to accept a walled garden approach (iTunes + iPod) to at all get agreements to distribute music via iTunes. Apple itself should be more open-minded, and Steve Jobs now tries to push the music industry to accept a DRM-free world. My 2007, not the year of DRM thereby sounds easier to accept: If not even the distributor that's been most successful in deploying DRM en masse wants it, then things will not look good for DRM overall. No doubt both the music industry and telecom operators want DRM, but they are also similar in another area: They don't understand the consumer market of today.

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