Afraid of WMA Steve?

The boss of Apple asks the record industry to stop using digital rights management on their tracks. Everyone knows the reason ipods are so shit is because they will only play songs downloaded from itunes (DRM protected songs anyway). That means that anything downloaded from another website will not play on an ipod. People are turning away from itunes in droves as they can get cheaper songs elsewhere...but...shock horror, these songs are in Microsoft's DRMd format: WMA.

itunes and ipods can't play these files so people have stopped buying ipods.

The answer? Well, Steve Jobs wants record companies to drop DRM so that the WMA files downloaded from napster and the likes can be converted in itunes so that they can play on an ipod.

I think that's fear in them there eyes.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6338603.stm

The best Guardian article ever...and very few spelling mistakes.

This is for you Jim Bob!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2006031,00.html

I especially like the fact that (at the time of writing) the web site is covered in adverts for the Mac (Guardian readers being as equally pretentious as the Apple Mac itself!).