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Originally Posted by Xenophon
I beg to differ! Apple hasn't been the one keeping the iPod "locked to the iTunes store" (although it may have worked out to their benefit).
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Back at the beginning of the iTunes store, Apple started out trying to get the big record labels to permit no-DRM distribution. The folks at the big labels wouldn't even consider it without DRM. You may recall the Steve Jobs letter on DRM from a year or two ago -- it contains some of this history. Apple did eventually manage to convince one of the four biggest labels to allow DRM-free music at a higher price (it was the smallest of the four, of course).
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Jobs' letter sounds very nice, but before it there were reports from several indie labels who asked to sell their music without DRM and were refused. So it's not all the labels' fault.