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> simply because Apple is strongly pro DRM http://www.apple.com/fr/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/ http://www.apple.com/fr/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/ I would argue tha
by falling 15y ago
> simply because Apple is strongly pro DRM
http://www.apple.com/fr/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/ http://www.apple.com/fr/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/
I would argue that iTunes' strong success (with DRM forced by the music labels) helped Amazon negotiate the deal to sell DRM-free music, which in turn allowed Apple to drop them too (all music on iTunes is DRM-free since 2009).
Movies and TV shows still have DRMs, sure, but nobody, as far as I know, is distributing DRM-free video content, not Apple, not Amazon, not Netflix and not Google. That means that either all of these companies are “strongly pro DRM” or the content owners are.
- shmerl 15y agoDRM doesn't only apply to the media content, but to software and operating systems as well. While SOPA is mostly associated with media, DRM in essence is a broader issue.