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To: i-node who wrote (240)	3/27/2007 5:18:48 AM
From: spudroberts1998	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1560

In Steve Jobs’s ‘Thoughts on Music’, an open letter in which he makes the case for dropping DRM copy protection altogether (http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/), he says in part: Why would the big four music companies agree to let Apple and others distribute their music without using DRM systems to protect it? The simplest answer is because DRMs haven’t worked, and may never work, to halt music piracy. Macrovision, a company that actually develops DRM software, responded with their own open letter, obviously trying to pursuade people that dropping DRM was a bad idea. The website daringfireball.com posted a rather hilarious interpretation of Macrovision's open letter, which is worth the read: daringfireball.net