iTunes DRM
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- SlashPeckham
Is this the begining of useful iPods?
- Baskerville0
Jobs makes good sense in his open letter:
"Though the big four music companies require that all their music sold online be protected with DRMs, these same music companies continue to sell billions of CDs a year which contain completely unprotected music. That’s right! No DRM system was ever developed for the CD, so all the music distributed on CDs can be easily uploaded to the Internet, then (illegally) downloaded and played on any computer or player."
So true, most of people's music comes from either illegal net downloads, or their own cds, both of which aren't protected. The music industry is losing, jobs is right that they should give up. The record companies would sell tons more mp3s if there was no encoding. The only reason I have never purchased from the iTunes music store is becuase the protection on the tracks would piss me off.
- moural0
"Through the end of 2006, customers purchased a total of 90 million iPods and 2 billion songs from the iTunes store. On average, that’s 22 songs purchased from the iTunes store for each iPod ever sold.
Today’s most popular iPod holds 1000 songs, and research tells us that the average iPod is nearly full. This means that only 22 out of 1000 songs, or under 3% of the music on the average iPod, is purchased from the iTunes store and protected with a DRM."
When you feel like using logic and doing prudent math, go ahead and get back to us...
- Redmond0
Why pay for MP3s? Buy the damn record and rip it for your player.