DVDneXtCOPY iTurns Removes iTunes DRM with Virtual CD Burner

[Jeffrey Watts]

Well, I guess my point was that while there were some small label artists or
lame "industry approved" and overexpensive storefronts (possibly only there
to provide a counterargument for RIAA's persecution of music sharers),
Apple's iTunes was the first "real" music store featuring artists from the
Big 3: Sony, BMG, WEA and featuring a real product.  Before iTunes, there
wasn't a viable industry.

It's not like Apple came late to the party and through their evil use of DRM
and monopoly somehow wrested control of the market from others - before them
there wasn't a market.

Jeffrey.

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Justin Dugger <jldugger at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_music_store disagrees.  Apple
> didn't invent online music retailing.  They were just the first group
> able to negotiate with the big label cartels. Several others had tried
> and had to go without.  Napster famously ignored the labels and money
> all together until it was too late (ironically, the pressplay Music
> Store created afterwards was eventually used to relaunch Napster).
>
>

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"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from
oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that
will reach to himself." -- Thomas Paine
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