Comments on: Should Apple license FairPlay? http://www.intomobile.com/2008/11/21/should-apple-license-fairplay.html Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:48:22 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Joseph Futral http://www.intomobile.com/2008/11/21/should-apple-license-fairplay.html/comment-page-1/#comment-323435 Joseph Futral Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:27:17 +0000 http://www.intomobile.com/?p=31305#comment-323435 From another perspective, at least from the perspective of those of us who really don't like DRM, Apple NOT licensing its Fairplay technology is helping ELIMINATE DRM. Do you think for a minute that Amazon would be able to sell non-DRM songs if Apple had licensed Fairplay? Never mind that the iPod nor iTunes is NOT locked down except as the conduit to each other (both iTunes and the iPod can play non-DRM, non-Apple purchased files, I have several albums I purchased from Amazon, not to mention all the CDs I already own), Apple in a larger sense did everyone a favour by not licensing Fairplay. Apple, by forcing everyone to develop an alternative approach, ABDICATED control over digital music. Joe From another perspective, at least from the perspective of those of us who really don’t like DRM, Apple NOT licensing its Fairplay technology is helping ELIMINATE DRM. Do you think for a minute that Amazon would be able to sell non-DRM songs if Apple had licensed Fairplay? Never mind that the iPod nor iTunes is NOT locked down except as the conduit to each other (both iTunes and the iPod can play non-DRM, non-Apple purchased files, I have several albums I purchased from Amazon, not to mention all the CDs I already own), Apple in a larger sense did everyone a favour by not licensing Fairplay. Apple, by forcing everyone to develop an alternative approach, ABDICATED control over digital music.

Joe

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