His Steveness posted an article on DRM (Digital Rights Management, the thing that prevents you from putting digital music on multiple computers, or listening to iTunes-bought music on anything but an iPod) on the Apple website earlier today. He says that there are only 3 ways Apple can go with the DRM from here:
or
He (and most of us, I think) states that the third choice is the best, since it would free up music a lot. He calls for the 4 major recording companies to abandon their DRM, and then Apple will drop the iTunes DRM, which would be awesome. This is actually a gutsy move by Apple, since if they did drop their DRM, they would possibly lose some of the people they currently have locked into iTunes and the iPod if their music was playable by other software and players.
I have one thing to say.
GO STEVE!
Cool. This is one of the major reasons I haven’t purchased an iPod.
Bah. This means that the artists won’t get their money. It’s not like their average pay hasn’t already taken a dip since iTunes came out. We should just completely abolish digital music purchasation and go back to CDs (or Blu-ray minis).