Asinine Monkey

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Steve Jobs

The Last Gasp of DRM?

It seems that Steve Jobs got under the skin of quite a few organisations with his Thoughts on Music piece. And as could be expected many of those same organisations began squealing like pigs at the mere mention of DRM being scrapped any time soon.

Macrovision, a long time purveyor of such 'quality' DRM, responded to Steve Jobs in an open letter which Daring Fireball has kindly unravelled for us all to read and digest:

Macrovision Translation

The Music Industry and DRM

Steve Jobs has published a well written piece on the current state of DRM in the music industry:

Thoughts on Music

Daring Fireball has published an equally well written response further expanding some of points raised by Jobs:

Reading Between the Lines

Interesting times are most definitely ahead.