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The industry lawsuits were so successful that not only did music piracy not go down[0], but they lost a bunch of money and had to cancel the whole legal campaig

The industry lawsuits were so successful that not only did music piracy not go down[0], but they lost a bunch of money and had to cancel the whole legal campaign. Suing individuals for casual piracy only makes sense if you're trying to build an extortion scheme. Maybe the logic is different for ARM. Maybe they really badly negotiated licenses with Qualcomm and they need to work around that, or they want to protect Cortex core licensing from some hypothetical Snapdragon with a good CPU. However, by doing that you are undermining your own reputation. Nobody wants to be known as Mr. Litigious. [0] Or at least, Steve Jobs said so in his open letter on DRM. They had telemetry in iTunes and knew how full iPods were versus how many songs people bought.

scarface74 4y ago
He did not say that most music was pirated. He said that most music was not bought on iTunes. iTunes supported ripping music from CDs. Their early marketing was “Rip, Mix, Burn”. Most people had a large CD collection. His exact words on his “Thoughts on Music” letter were. https://macdailynews.com/2007/02/06/apple_ceo_steve_jobs_posts_rare_open_letter_thoughts_on_music/ https://macdailynews.com/2007/02/06/apple_ceo_steve_jobs_pos... > Today’s most popular iPod holds 1000 songs, and research tells us that the average iPod is nearly full. This means that only 22 out of 1000 songs, or under 3% of the music on the average iPod, is purchased from the iTunes store and protected with a DRM. The remaining 97% of the music is unprotected