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Old 02-09-2010, 11:20 AM   #393
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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon View Post
Very funny, but completely unrealistic (EMI *forced* them to drop DRM on music, there was no "went after" for Apple). We already know they're using their own incompatible DRM, which speaks volumes.
Ummm... NO! On the "EMI *forced* them" part, that is. See my post here for details. Apple really, truly did fight hard for no-DRM on music from the very beginning. They lost. And delays on removing DRM on music from the non-EMI big labels were driven by the LABELS not by Apple.

As for their own incompatible DRM... I think that we only suspect that they are using their own incompatible DRM.* What we know is that an Adobe employee's blog says that Apple is not using Adobe's DRM. Not quite the same statement.

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*And even if they are using DRM, we still don't know whether that's from their own choice, or whether it was demanded by the publishers.

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