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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Apple certainly believes that DRM systems are ineffective for music. Yes, the iTunes Music Store had DRM, but only because the music publishers insisted. I very much doubt that they would have DRM on ebooks if publishers didn't insist on it.
If the Schiller quote doesn't convince you, how about Steve Jobs here
and here: |
I've read the
entire Steve Jobs statement as to why Apple abandoned DRM for music. Job's argument was that most music was offered for sale on DRM free CDs, so that it was pointless and counterproductive to put DRM
only on music distributed and offered for sale online. He clearly did not intend it to be to be a general argument against the idea of using law enforcement as part of an anti piracy strategy : quite the contrary.