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Originally Posted by HarryT
This is untrue. It is very well known that Mr Jobs wanted the iTunes music store to be DRM-free from the outset; it was the record companies who insisted on DRM.
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You're very trusting. At a minimum, regardless of any one individual's subjective desires, Apple benefited from DRM by locking more and more people into their ecosphere and then took the bars off the doors only once habit had taken the place of those technological restrictions.
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I don't understand what you mean when you say "MP3s mostly got freed...". The MP3 format does not, and never has, had DRM. What has it been freed from?
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They were freed from non-use by commercial retailers. Commercially purchasable MP3s were unleashed on the public because DRM'd formats had already served their purpose of restricting consumer choice.