Thoughts on Music

Steve Jobs:

So if the music companies are selling over 90 percent of their music DRM-free, what benefits do they get from selling the remaining small percentage of their music encumbered with a DRM system? There appear to be none.…Convincing them to license their music to Apple and others DRM-free will create a truly interoperable music marketplace. Apple will embrace this wholeheartedly.

Update: 2lmc spool points out that, currently, people selling their music on the iTunes store are not given the choice to opt-out of DRM.

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I think this is one of the better “Get a Mac” ads (via John Gruber). Too bad Apple never made an ad about Abort, Retry, Ignore.

Update (2023-11-20): See also: A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Permissions Requests.

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