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The cost of Fairplay

A final point on the post about Steve Jobs’s letter to the music industry. In episode 84 of TWiT, Hahn Choi points one important factor in Apple wanting to keep DRM (especially FairPlay) on the iTunes Music Store. DRM adds lock-in. As Hahn points out – Since FairPlay is not …

It’s still weak sauce for me

In last night’s daily link dump, I had added a link to Steve Jobs’s article wherein he calls on the music industry to give up on DRM. I applaud the sentiment,but had mentioned that I wasn’t comfortable with how the article dismissed the idea of making opening up FairPlay to …