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Re: Requim for DRM: Apple music sells one million in less than a
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Cox)
Fri May 9 11:14:33 2003
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From: Ben Cox <cox-work@djehuti.com>
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Date: 09 May 2003 08:26:58 -0400
On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 10:34, Ian Grigg wrote:
> As a postscript to the troubled and tortured life
> of DRM, Apple showed how to do it last week. With
> a combination of ease of use and easy licensing,
> they have just sold a million songs in one week,
> right into the market that DRM fans had hoped to
> "control".
I'm not sure how this is really a "requiem" for DRM, since Apple's
iTunes Music Store sells AAC files that include a DRM scheme. Whether
you consider Apple's AAC-based DRM scheme onerous or not is up to you.
But it is there.
In the latest TidBITS, Adam Engst discusses Apple's DRM from a user's
point of view (not a technical/implementation POV).
http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07175
-- Ben
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