Comments on: Steve Jobs on Music Choice http://techliberation.com/2006/03/24/steve-jobs-on-music-choice/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:51:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tim http://techliberation.com/2006/03/24/steve-jobs-on-music-choice/comment-page-1/#comment-32997 Tim Fri, 24 Mar 2006 22:54:54 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/03/24/steve-jobs-on-music-choice/#comment-32997 <p>I don't have a problem with his decision to give in to the content industry's demands. Sometimes you have to make compromises in business, and if the content industry wants to shoot itself in the foot, that's their business. But I have a problem with him becoming DRM's biggest booster now that Apple is also its biggest beneficiary. The man knows better.</p> <p>But my broader point is that the emperor has no clothes. The guy responsible for the world's most popular DRM format knows that DRM is ineffective against piracy and bad for consumers. I may or may not fault the messenger for his hypocrisy, but I certainly want the message heard by as many people as possible.</p> I don’t have a problem with his decision to give in to the content industry’s demands. Sometimes you have to make compromises in business, and if the content industry wants to shoot itself in the foot, that’s their business. But I have a problem with him becoming DRM’s biggest booster now that Apple is also its biggest beneficiary. The man knows better.

But my broader point is that the emperor has no clothes. The guy responsible for the world’s most popular DRM format knows that DRM is ineffective against piracy and bad for consumers. I may or may not fault the messenger for his hypocrisy, but I certainly want the message heard by as many people as possible.

]]> By: Tim http://techliberation.com/2006/03/24/steve-jobs-on-music-choice/comment-page-1/#comment-53080 Tim Fri, 24 Mar 2006 22:54:54 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/03/24/steve-jobs-on-music-choice/#comment-53080 <p>I don't have a problem with his decision to give in to the content industry's demands. Sometimes you have to make compromises in business, and if the content industry wants to shoot itself in the foot, that's their business. But I have a problem with him becoming DRM's biggest booster now that Apple is also its biggest beneficiary. The man knows better.<br><br>But my broader point is that the emperor has no clothes. The guy responsible for the world's most popular DRM format knows that DRM is ineffective against piracy and bad for consumers. I may or may not fault the messenger for his hypocrisy, but I certainly want the message heard by as many people as possible.</p> I don’t have a problem with his decision to give in to the content industry’s demands. Sometimes you have to make compromises in business, and if the content industry wants to shoot itself in the foot, that’s their business. But I have a problem with him becoming DRM’s biggest booster now that Apple is also its biggest beneficiary. The man knows better.

But my broader point is that the emperor has no clothes. The guy responsible for the world’s most popular DRM format knows that DRM is ineffective against piracy and bad for consumers. I may or may not fault the messenger for his hypocrisy, but I certainly want the message heard by as many people as possible.

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