Wow. This is stunning. Steve J0bs is changing his mind and probably changing the market with this.
UPDATE: Here is a small, but powerful paragraph. Wow!
Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store can sell music which is playable on all players. This is clearly the best alternative for consumers, and Apple would embrace it in a heartbeat. If the big four music companies would license Apple their music without the requirement that it be protected with a DRM, we would switch to selling only DRM-free music on our iTunes store. Every iPod ever made will play this DRM-free music.
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I’d love to see DRM-free music out there, but I think it’s a LONG shot that the music industry would ever adopt DRM-free.