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Apple Shows Us DRM's True Colors
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| At this week's Macworld Expo, Apple announced that by April, music from the
| iTunes Store will no longer be shackled by digital rights management (DRM).
| Finally, DRM is good and fully dead for digital music -- gone from CDs, gone
| from downloads, and largely dead for streaming.
|
| Apple's announcement comes nearly a year after Amazon.com's DRM-free MP3
| deals went live, demonstrating that the record labels were holding the DRM
| card until they could wring business concessions from Apple (in the form of
| variable pricing). This just underscores that DRM is not really about
| stopping piracy, but rather about leverage over authorized distributors.
|
| In fact, an inventory of Apple's remaining DRM armory makes it vividly clear
| that DRM (backed by the DMCA) is almost always about eliminating legitimate
| competition, hobbling interoperability, and creating de facto technology
| monopolies:
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| * Apple uses DRM to lock iPhones to AT&T and Apple's iTunes App Store;
| * Apple uses DRM to prevent recent iPods from syncing with software other
| than iTunes (Apple claims it violates the DMCA to reverse engineer the
| hashing mechanism);
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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/01/apple-shows-us-drms-true-colors
"We should whack them (Dell over Linux dealings), we should make sure they
understand our value."
--Paul Flessner, MS Senior Vice President, Server Applications Unit
Recent:
Lame: Apple Charging $0.30 Per Song To Ditch DRM
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| In the initial news about Apple going DRM-free, I saw it reported that Apple
| would let you convert your existing files to DRM-free. However, what was left
| out of the reports I saw (though, people in our comments pointed it out) was
| that Apple wants to charge you $0.30 for the privilege of getting rid of the
| DRM.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090106/1915023301.shtml
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