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Sam Diaz, assistant technology editor, commented on Post I.T. that the Recording Industry Association of America's response -- "Apple's offer to license FairPlay to other technology companies is a welcome breakthrough" -- conveniently ignored Jobs's basic point:
Hey, what about Jobs' idea to eliminate DRM software? The RIAA didn't address that suggestion, which was really the headline of Jobs' essay.
But who expected the RIAA to embrace Jobs's proposal? A reader named "Domini" didn't:
DRM keeps people from buying music, and contributes to the financial bleeding of the industry. The RIAA has forgotten that Fair Use is legal. It's getting harder to defend DRM. No one believes the RIAA anymore.
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But bashing the RIAA didn't necessarily mean that readers thought Apple wasn't serving its own interests, as well. "Raul" hypothesized that the Jobs manifesto was all part of a master plan:
1st support DRM to convince the labels to license their music to apple and then once you own 70% of the market (monopoly) and have enough leverage, tell them that DRM was a bad idea so that you can capture the remaining 30%.
Others, such as a reader named "mp," noted that the debate was meaningless:
Give me the details of any song on Itunes and . . . i can have the song in high quality mp3 on my computer, free of charge in a matter of minutes. I fail to see how abolishing DRM is going to inflame this situation one iota.
