Steve Jobs' Apple fought for it. They leveraged iPod dominance to force the industry to swallow lawful ripping through iTunes, then 128kbps Internet download wi

Steve Jobs' Apple fought for it. They leveraged iPod dominance to force the industry to swallow lawful ripping through iTunes, then 128kbps Internet download with infinite re-download rights and weak FairPlay DRM, then 256kbps without DRM few years later. The industry resisted with everything and lost, in the process road-killing Sony Walkman brand as well. The music world wasn't a paradise from the beginning and by itself.