We’ve all seen the 10000000 blog posts about Steve Jobs open letter to the music industry, suggesting that DRM be removed. What we are forgetting is that without it, we wouldn’t be where we are now. Apple was able to acquiesce the big studio’s concerns over selling online music, a huge step forward for everyone. Eventually, they’ll get comfortable with it and let it slide. Heck, the TV industry is cool with VCRs and TIVO, it just takes time.

I am happy to hear that Steve Jobs, the pioneer of online music sales to the masses is asking in an open format for DRM restrictions to be removed, but it is still early in the game. There will be plenty of time for this later. For now, lets be happy that there are devices out there for under $100 that let you tote around a music collection bigger than all of our parents ever had.

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