Apple's Steve Jobs Calls for End of DRM
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs has made a surprise call for the end of digital rights management technology, which is designed to stop copyrighted music from being shared illicitly. Jobs says Apple would sell only DRM-free music on iTunes if it could.
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Apple's Steve Jobs urges top record companies to begin selling songs online without copyright protection.
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The music industry reacts as Steve Jobs, the boss of Apple, sets out his stall on the future of the music industry.
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The online retail giant finally unveils its long-awaited music store. In a double punch to Apple, it's DRM-free--and cheaper.
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Steve, you're so smart The RIAA has seized on the weakest part of Steve Jobs' anti-DRM manifesto by banging on Apple to license its FairPlay technology to other companies.â¦
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Free software advocates rallied  against certain limits on copying music and films on Tuesday in  a global "Day against DRM" (Digital Rights Management), saying  consumers are robbed of their fair-use rights as entertainment  goes digital and online.
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took quite a dig at the iPod and its users, implying that the iPod was without significant DRM protection, and that the majority of music on everyone&#39;s iPods is stolen.
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Paul McGuinness,  longtime manager of rock band U2, has called on Internet  service providers to immediately introduce disconnection  policies to end illegal music downloads and urged governments  to make sure they do.
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Executives from Nokia and Philips published an open letter today calling for the European Commission to consider scaling back, if not eliminating, imposing levies on digital recording media and playback devices, including DVRs and MP3 players. But the alternative may be a hard sell: increased DRM.
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THAT MEEKshy and retiring Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, has dared to suggest that Apple&#39;s reassuringly expensive and beautiful iPods might be packed full of pirated music.
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Steve Jobs, Bono and the Edge Tuesday ushered in what Apple's CEO and the two members of U2 called a new era of digital music.
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Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs on Tuesday called on the four major record companies to start selling songs online without copy protection software known as digital rights management (DRM).
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The lead analyst of last week's JupiterResearch report showing a majority of music industry executives in the EU agreeing that a world without digital rights management would be a world with greater revenues, told BetaNews in an exclusive interview this afternoon that his firm believes a single, open, interoperable, standard DRM scheme would still be rejected by consumers.
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Apple moved closer to selling DRM-free music with the release Wednesday of an iTunes update.
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The unpopularity among users of Microsoft's WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage) digital rights management tech isn't stopping Apple, which has filed an updated patent application on a DRM scheme with similar aspirations.
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Hoping to one-up Apple with its recent move away from digital rights management, high-quality music site MusicGiants began offering DRM-free music recently with the release of Paul McCartney's newest album, Memory Almost Full.
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The latest version of Hymn can already remove DRM protection from songs purchased from the iTunes 7 store to enable playback on non-iPod players.  In Listening Post.