Steve Jobs says DRM is bad, but Sells it on Music from Labels that Don’t Require it.

Steve Jobs has an elequent blog like post on DRM entitled Thoughts on Music.

 

The third alternative is to abolish DRMs entirely. Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store can sell music which is playable on all players. This is clearly the best alternative for consumers, and Apple would embrace it in a heartbeat. If the big four music companies would license Apple their music without the requirement that it be protected with a DRM, we would switch to selling only DRM-free music on our iTunes store. Every iPod ever made will play this DRM-free music.

 

Steve is making his happy rapid fans happy by trying to make them think he killed DRM. It’s a well known fact that many if not all of the major music companies are thinking about selling DRM free music shortly. Genious. I want to beleive that Steve is for real and that he doesn’t like DRM and that he wants them to get rid of it (it helps his business be a monopoly) but I’m afraid I’m not dumb enough to really do so. Steve even puts DRM on the music when the content owners don’t require it. This is what I don’t like about Steve Jobs, he does things to make himself look good, and then when no one’s looking he’s not doing good things. None of us are perfect but hey, if you want to music companies to Stop forcing you to sell DRM infested music, at least quit wrapping it on the music that doesn’t require it.