Vlad, Your assertion that users live happily with iTunes staggers belief. DVD Jon's new company wouldn't get VC funding if that was the case, and then there's the Apple vs France legal procedings. DRM isn't acceptable to a lot of people, and while Apple or Microsoft might try it on in their little private fiefdoms, there is no place for DRM in standards based development communities. Regards, Dave On 22 Jun 2009, 4:45 PM, "Levantovsky, Vladimir" < Vladimir.Levantovsky@monotypeimaging.com> wrote: On Saturday, June 20, 2009 11:35 PM Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Chri... I would say that when it comes to music - exactly the opposite is true. Kudos to Apple and iTunes for creating a "technological playground" where billions of users and all major recording labels and artists can happily co-exist. Implementing a reasonable level of technological protection gave birth a whole new ecosystem with the abundance of content where users can easily find anything and everything they want and don't mind paying for it. Technology (yes, I intentionally avoid saying that d-word but we all know what it is) created a backbone for new business model to be put in place that both consumers and content providers can live with. The whole iTunes/iPod/iPhone universe would have been impossible to create if music industry didn't agree to participate. Vladimir > ~TJ
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