CNET News Daily Podcast: Behind Apple's holdout on DRM

Apple continues to wrap the vast majority of major-label music in Fairplay, the company's proprietary digital rights management software, at a time when its major competitors have already signed DRM-free deals with all the big players. In an open letter, CNET News' Greg Sandoval suggests a different tack.

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Charles, who was that uninformed guess of yours? (Greg Something or the other...) And if not uninformed, at the very least, inarticulate! After listening to the piece I'm not sure if Apple/Jobs want DRM or not. And if Apple/Jobs want DRM, why they do? He seem to indicate that Jobs has publicly stated that he didn't want DRM and that Apple has DRM-free music from some labels. So why is the onus on Apple to get rid of DRM. Does he understand that Apple is not the copyright holder in this case?

The records labels have the right and power to give Apple right to sell DRM-free music. The mere fact that every other digital music distributer has DRM-free music, I think is an indication that the music is trying to coerce Apple.

He also infers that there is something that Apple could/should do to make this happen without saying what he is alluding to. He sounds more like a shill for the labels than a reporter.