Jobs hates DRM/iTunes +
Beatles/WWDC
07/02/07 09:54 Filed in:
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Yesterday Steve Jobs wrote an open letter to the world
titled
"Thoughts on Music" in which he
discusses the current state of digital music and
DRM. He writes about people claiming they have
this hold on the entire industry because of
Apple's own DRM called FairPlay. Steve defines
three possible ways how to deal with this: Keep
going as is, the system works and just the same,
others are doing it as well; Open FairPlay, which
would force them to reveal how FairPlay is
implemented in eventually leak secrets allowing
hackers the ability to crack the DRM; and lastly
is to remove any DRM from all files in which any
player could play the file without restriction.