{"id":1406,"date":"2007-02-06T16:37:43","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T20:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/06\/thoughts-on-music\/"},"modified":"2007-02-06T17:24:02","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T21:24:02","slug":"thoughts-on-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/06\/thoughts-on-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/hotnews\/thoughtsonmusic\/\">Steve Jobs<\/a>:\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/hotnews\/thoughtsonmusic\/\">\r\n<p>\r\nSo 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.\u2026Convincing them\u00a0to license their music to Apple and others DRM-free will create\u00a0a truly interoperable music marketplace. Apple will embrace this wholeheartedly.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\nUpdate: <a href=\"http:\/\/2lmc.org\/spool\/id\/5525\">2lmc spool<\/a> points out that, currently, people selling their music on the iTunes store are not given the choice to opt-out of DRM.\r\n<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u2026Convincing them\u00a0to license their music to Apple and others DRM-free will create\u00a0a truly interoperable music marketplace. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}