Jobs Tells Record Companies To Lose Copy Protection On Downloaded Music

Reuters:

Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs called on the four major record companies Tuesday to start selling songs online without copy protection software known as digital rights management (DRM).

In a statement posted to his company's Web site, Jobs said there appeared to be no benefit to the record companies to continue to sell more than 90 percent of their music without DRM on compact discs while selling the remaining small percentage of their music protected with such a system.

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