DRM Sure, Why Not Open-Up the iPod Then?
By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Feb 7th, 2007 • Category: News for Creatives (archives)It takes our European friends to shine a little light on the inherit contradiction of Steve Job’s statement. While the US side media is gobbling this all up, once again fighting for the “democratization” (making it free) of music (and other creative enterprises – NOTE: why do technologists -and pop-culture- believe creative property is free for the taking, but not other goods like frozen dinners? Is it because the creative professionals have allowed technology to advance to make their art/craft easy to steal? We’re all crazy about our Macs but then Steve Jobs gets on the mic and talks about removing copyright protections, what to do?), our Norwegian friends remind us of the closed-type of system Apple has in place with iTunes and the iPod.
“[Steve Jobs] also goes on to turn the whole issue on its head by stating iPod owners are not locked into [the] iTunes Music Store – the issue our complaint [addresses] is of course the opposite, iTunes Music Store customers are locked to the iPod.”
Also notable from Job’s note (reported by Techcrunch) is the following data:
“He discusses how 90 million iPods have been purchased and 2 billion songs — equating to an average of 22 songs per person on iPods that hold 1000 songs. Internal research at Apple shows that the average iPod is full — meaning that only 3% of songs on an iPod are DRM-protected, with the remaining 97% unprotected (ripped audio CDs; illegally downloaded tracks).”
- It’s interesting to note that Apple is spying on all the iPod users behavior
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