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Washington Post: Apple’s Jobs Calls on Music Industry to Drop DRM

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 7, 2007

“Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs on Tuesday called on the
four major record companies to start selling songs online without
copy protection software to thwart piracy known as digital rights
management (DRM).

“Jobs said there appeared to be no benefit for the record
companies in continuing to sell more than 90 percent of their music
without DRM on compact discs, while selling the remaining small
percentage of their music encumbered with a DRM system…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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