Steve Jobs Says, No More DRM, and BTW Please Pass the Dutchie on the Left Hand Side, Thanks

Steve Jobs, P.B.U.H. You either love him or he makes your spider sense tingle. Perhaps both. I still remember the good ol' days when he was ripping off the Woz at Atari. Anyway, now he's asking for the Gang of Four to put an end to DRM on music altogether. His argument? Well, they got no problem with people burning CDs they buy at Wal-Mart (Sony rootkits aside), so why cripple online stores? Indeed, why not? After all, I'd much rather just download my songs via torrents than have to screw around with some lame DRM scheme. If I want to transfer my six googlebytes of mp3s from my Lite-Brite to my Pogo Ball and back again, who cares? This is what I've been saying all along. If you want to end "piracy," make it so easy that every peer will suddenly find Jesus and pay $1 per song. Cause if you don't, you ain't getting no Boy Scout Intellectual Property patch (TM), Kidd.

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