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Re: [News] [Rival] Apple Sued for Using DRM as Vendor Lock-in Tool

____/ Rick on Friday 04 January 2008 13:04 : \____

> On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:50:39 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> Antitrust Lawsuit Charges Apple With Monopolizing Online Music
>> 
> (snip)
> 
> First, there are plenty of alternative music/multimedia players. I uste
> my Palm TX to play multimedia, including music I bought from through
> iTunes.
> 
> There are plenty of places to buy music online.
> 
> Jobs has stated if the labels will stop insisting on DRM,Apple will stop
> using DRM.

Yes, that was appreciated by the Defective by Design campaign, but some say
that he only made such a statement for PR purposes. Apple and Microsoft
benefits from that DRM-imposed lock-in. Open platforms lose the most, the
customer loses a lot (of music/films), and there's no fair competition
anymore.

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