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EDITORIAL: SNOW JOBS
02/17/2007
Legislative pressure is mounting (see report, page 12) for Apple to allow its digital rights management system, FairPlay, to be licensed by other digital music stores and players, so that consumers can buy their music anywhere they want, and play it on any player they want.
For one, Apple's DRM is so unrestrictive, most never bother with the various workarounds that are already in place—or the reality that any album purchased from iTunes can be burned to CD and re-ripped as unprotected MP3s.
Windows DRM has been hacked, but that doesn't mean the business model of Napster, MTV's Urge or Yahoo—a few Microsoft clients—has fallen to tatters.
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