On 8 févr. 07, at 02:15, Doug Henwood wrote:
> I thought it was very interesting that Jobs says that about 3% of the
> material on the world's iPods is from the iTunes store; in my case,
> it's about 8%. I don't recall him mentioning this, but he must know
> that a lot of the other 97% doesn't come from people encoding their
> own CDs.
He wrote:
> The
> remaining 97% of the music is unprotected and playable on any player
> that can play the open formats.
Which means anything from copied off the net to encoded from one's own CDs, or encoded from one's neighbor's CDs. The argument being that people are hardly "locked" into the iTunes' DRM scheme if an average 97% does not come from the iTunes' DRM.
Whatever the reason why he wrote that, the truth is that DRM does not work _right now_ only because the hardware does not support it. And the Vista move aims at making it run in the long run with _all_ the hardware to be produced from now on to run Vista compliant DRM crap (from the smallest CD player to the biggest plasma screens). So if some European groups are keen at pointing at Apple's scheme, they'd rather spend their energy on what is really going on: Vista= global content locking (made universal since Vista is planned to be everywhere).
JC