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Story: Apple wants music to be DRM-free

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Re: Hypocritical

I think there might be some technical issues with this in that the DRM gets slipped on at purchase. So I don't think giving it to other MP3 makers would help. Unless you are referring to MP3 player makers and I think Steve touched on that in his letter in that the more people who know about the keys to the Fairplay kingdom the more chance they have of being stolen. Broken DRM is probably worse than no DRM.

That said Apple have licensed Fairplay to other companies. Actually other company to be strictly correct - I think the Motorola ROKR had a full iTunes player so Apple can do this.

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