Skagen

Steve Jobs: We're Ready To End DRM Now

"No DRM system was ever developed for the CD." ????

I cant believe Jobs actually said this. There is no DRM for the traditonal Redbook CD, but music stores these days are full of copy protected CD's which do not follow the Redbook spec. And there was a huge scandal last year which was all about Sony violating the law with its CD's installing secret"rooktits" on the PC's of people who bought their music. That was all about DRM on CD's.

So Jobs is just flat out wrong on that and that is before you get in to the lots of other holes in his argument.

Bottom line is that even Ipod users buy very little iTunes music on average. Partloy because of the DRM on the music but also partly because what Itunes sells is low quality 128 kbps recordings, well below CD quality and in fact not much different from an FM broadcast. I dont think Apple even sells music in its own pointless proprietary "Apple Lossless" format

So Jobs would rather have DRM-free music to boost sales but I think he will also need to sell decent quality musiic too if he wants to see higher sales numbers via Itunes.