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Thoughts on Music, by Steve Jobs (apple.com, 6 February 2007)

Steve Jobs · 6 Feb 2007

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  1. The most serious problem is that licensing a DRM involves disclosing some of its secrets to many people in many companies, and history tells us that inevitably these secrets will leak.
  2. The third alternative is to abolish DRMs entirely. 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.
  3. The simplest answer is because DRMs haven’t worked, and may never work, to halt music piracy.

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