Apple head honcho Steve Jobs just put out a nearly 20 paragraph *essay* with Apple’s (read: Steve’s) stance on the Digital Rights Management (DRM) issue facing iTunes and the rest of the online music distrubution world.
Let me save you some time and boil his long-windedness down…
Universal, Sony BMG, Warner, EMI — the ball is in your court. Strip the DRM requirement for selling your music on iTunes and Apple will distribute the DRM free tracks with pleasure. The iPod doesn’t care if the tunes are DRM free.
Oh, and Steve kindly requests you forward all future requests for DRM free digital music distribution to the “big four” music companies listed above.
Feel free to read his whole statement if you’ve got ten minutes to kill.
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