[cfgeeks] AppleIsEvil++

[Gil Young]

Yet, 95% of my music in iTunes is DRM free.

And FWIW....

DRM = a contract.  Why care if anyone else enters into the contract?  
People sign up for high interest debt every day, far more evil IMHO.

I'm not 100%, but i'd bet that Jobs gets pressure to not sell DRM-free 
unless the big labels do so, and he can't make it publicly known that 
pressure is there.

DRM is the last line of defense the big labels have to their respective 
industries.

Kevin Korb wrote:
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> Jobs sais he doesn't like DRM yet every time an artists asks to have
> iTunes sell their stuff DRM free they refuse.  He claims they only use
> DRM because they are forced to by the RIAA but when they sell music that
> has nothing to do with the RIAA and neither the artist or the consumer
> wants DRM Apple ends up being the one pushing the DRM.
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> On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Kevin P. Inscoe wrote:
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>> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:36:52 -0400
>> From: Kevin P. Inscoe <kevin at inscoe.org>
>> To: Central Florida Geeks <cfgeeks at mail.cfgeeks.org>
>> Subject: Re: [cfgeeks] AppleIsEvil++
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>> Kevin Korb wrote:
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>>> lol, Apple can do lots of wrong.  They are the king of DRM.
>>
>> Well Jobs sez he doesn't want to be.. OMT what are you doing up @ 6am??
>> What broke?
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