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Thoughts on 'Thoughts on Music'

My thoughts on Steve Jobs' recent memo, "Thoughts on Music." While widely reported (and hailed) as yet another sign of the end of digital rights management systems as a way to control the use of digital music, it is clearly a public relations stunt aimed squarely at European consumers.

False Assumptions about FairPlay

Over at Gadfly, Peter Mulcahy complains about Randall Stross' recent article in the New York Times, which rightly castigates Apple for the limitations of the FairPlay DRM with which it encodes audio and video purchased from the iTunes Store. While I think commenter Markus Kolic is right in noting that Stross seems to be misreading [...]

The Sprint Power Vision Music Store

One might think that the fact that I have become a member of the Sprint Ambassador Program (which entitles me to a free Samsung A920 phone and 6 months of absolutely free service) might cause me to blog about how wonderful the Sprint Power Vision network is. Unfortunately for Valentine, McCormick, & Ligibel, the marketing [...]