RIAA Not Willing To Give Up On The DRM Dream - Idolator Comments

RIAA Not Willing To Give Up On The DRM Dream

30f — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:49:40 EST

The "open letter" was definitely a semi-veiled threat from Jobs to the labels that they better not jack with the amount he has to pay for songs Apple sells on iTunes. Incredibly self-serving on the part of Jobs, but he IS a corporate head, so what else is to be expected? The RIAA is ALSO a big corporation who is desperately trying to maintain the status quo on their end. The RIAA (and the equally myopic labels) are starting to look more and more like the French plantation family that still sips Bordeaux and sits on chintz sofas half way up the river in "Apocalypse Now" - while Charlie and Hendrix-blaring narco-Marines fill in the landscape around them.

Not even Dennis Hopper cares if music video directors get their cut.

30f

RIAA Not Willing To Give Up On The DRM Dream

Chris Molanphy — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:47:46 EST

This is pathetic, but it's honestly the only thing they can write in response because Jobs so totally has their number. His logic in the essay is so sound (even if it is shamelessly self-serving for Apple), all they can do is (agreed, beta.rogan, this is so Bush/Rove-like) highlight the one bit that works in their favor: interoperability. It's lawyerly in its evil logic - Really? You're thinking about licensing FairPlay? Yes, thank you very much, we will take that. What, the rest of the essay? LaLaLaLaLaLaLaLaLaLaLaLaLaLaLa!!! [sticking fingers in ears]

Obviously, Jobs's essay was the first shot in the long-anticipated iTunes Song Pricing Renegotiation Of '07. It was his opening serve, it was low-down and dirty, and this is their even nastier response.

Chris Molanphy

RIAA Not Willing To Give Up On The DRM Dream

beta.rogan — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:43:30 EST

They appear to be adopting the GW Bush school of fact reinterpretation...I guess if worked for a war, why not records?

beta.rogan