POST BY PADDY JOHNSON
In this early video making the Internet rounds, Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs likens Apple’s shameless stealing of “great” ideas to artistic practices. It’s a nice philosophy, though I’ll note the company only supports stealing as a creative end when there’s a demonstrable profit to be found. iTunes DRMs aren’t exactly facilitating sharing and I’m guessing the iPad won’t either.
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that’s amusing as you know — however not amazing. it reminds me as to why i find new york such filth relative to ground zero still being a slosh pit….seeing people gifted the work of so many artists some of it not even required to “steal” and a gathering of morons i’ve had in my life still produce (or create) an absolutely ugly and pathetic monstrosity based in the every -ism of schism one could imagine. like madonna, they can’t airbrush their crap forever.
Jobs ‘stole’ that from Picasso. And iTunes is largely DRM free.
Thanks for that update – I hadn’t realized itunes had made the switch (though really, the point still stands).
It’s been over a year now for the DRM-free iTunes stuff
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/01/06itunes.html
I don’t understand your point thought – “The iPad won’t facilitate sharing”? Like, a book won’t facilitate sharing, because it doesn’t come with a photo copier. Wazzah?
Yeah, I saw that when I googled itunes and DRM.
The iPad isn’t just set up to sell books, but magazines too. That’s great – the publishing industry is dying and hopefully this will provide the incentive people need to pay for content – but it seems unlikely that we’ll be able to send links to articles and such to our friends since everything will be under pay walls.
Movies and TV shows bought from Apple are not DRM-free. And for tunes you bought under the DRM regime you can pay Apple a fee to “upgrade” to DRM-free. Fortunately there are still artistes out there finding ways around Steve Jobs, the former artiste turned would-be monopolist.
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