Steve Jobs says that DRM doesn't work

Over at apple.com, Steve Jobs' blog gives his Thoughts on Music. The 10-minute read explains the current state of the digital music industry and (surprisingly) respectfully mentions all of the industry's major players. Where does he want the industry to go?

Why would the big four music companies agree to let Apple and others distribute their music without using DRM systems to protect it? The simplest answer is because DRMs haven’t worked, and may never work, to halt music piracy. Though the big four music companies require that all their music sold online be protected with DRMs, these same music companies continue to sell billions of CDs a year which contain completely unprotected music. That’s right! No DRM system was ever developed for the CD, so all the music distributed on CDs can be easily uploaded to the Internet, then (illegally) downloaded and played on any computer or player.

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