Apple chief executive Steve Jobs yesterday called on record companies to let online music stores sell digital music files without anti-piracy controls, an idea that some analysts say has merit."This is clearly the best alternative for customers and Apple would embrace it in a heartbeat," Jobs wrote in a column titled "Thoughts on Music," which was posted on Apple's Web site yesterday.
Critics have complained that digital rights management, or DRM, software built into tracks sold on the company's iTunes music store locks users into Apple's iPod. Such competitors as Real Networks, as well as some European countries, have called on Apple to share its software code or otherwise open its protected music file format. Doing so would allow devices other than iPods to play music downloaded from iTunes and would allow music purchased elsewhere on the Internet to be played on iPods.
Source: washingtonpost.com
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