February 2007
Réflexions sur la musique
Steve Jobs a publié sur le site d’Apple une lettre ouverte très intéressante au sujet des DRM (gestion numérique des droits pour les fichiers musicaux). Comme son texte mérite d’être lu par le plus grand nombre, je l’ai traduit ici.
DAAP Licensing
When Apple released iTunes 7 last September, they changed the secret hashing. You would think they would have informed their DAAP licensees of this in advance and provided them with updated DAAP documentation. Not so.
Reading Between the Lines of Steve Jobs's 'Thoughts on Music'
Is it a challenge to the major record labels? An answer to the increasingly hostile European governments (Norway, France, Germany) that are pressuring Apple to 'open up' the iTunes Store? A message to the press to clarify Apple’s stance on DRM? A big fuck-you to Microsoft?
January 2007
Norway: Apple's FairPlay DRM is illegal
For all practical purposes this means that iTunes Music Store is trying to kill off one the most important building blocks in a well functioning digital society, interoperability, in order to boost its own profits
December 2005
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