Comments on: Steve Jobs Hates DRM http://www.gadgetlounge.net/music/steve-jobs-hates-drm/ Digital Technology for Digital Living. Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:18:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: jragon http://www.gadgetlounge.net/music/steve-jobs-hates-drm/comment-page-1/#comment-11820 jragon Tue, 13 Feb 2007 02:29:55 +0000 http://www.gadgetlounge.net/archives/2007/02/12/steve-jobs-hates-drm/#comment-11820 the RIAA (and Hollywood) don't get it, which accounts for a lot of the crappiness that comes with any online media service. When you're on a conference call with Universal, they say "our content is worth billions and you're just a computer company". At that point you can rant about how "everyone hates DRM" and have your service fail or you can play ball and try to change things from the inside, like Apple is doing. If you ever want things to change, you should start rooting for these companies to stand up to RIAA. This article is a great start. But all of you that hate DRM but can't stand that Steve Jobs did something right: get over it. The man/company you hate may be your best bet for defeating DRM. the RIAA (and Hollywood) don’t get it, which accounts for a lot of the crappiness that comes with any online media service. When you’re on a conference call with Universal, they say “our content is worth billions and you’re just a computer company”. At that point you can rant about how “everyone hates DRM” and have your service fail or you can play ball and try to change things from the inside, like Apple is doing. If you ever want things to change, you should start rooting for these companies to stand up to RIAA. This article is a great start.

But all of you that hate DRM but can’t stand that Steve Jobs did something right: get over it. The man/company you hate may be your best bet for defeating DRM.

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