“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…”