Thursday, December 4, 2014

Apple's Eddy Cue explains why DRM for music was a necessary evil


In a trial about whether Apple's iTunes was the lynchpin in shutting out competitors and making it harder for consumers to take their music elsewhere, today was Apple's chance to explain what it was doing with its software nearly a decade ago. To do that, Apple's iTunes chief Eddy Cue today spent several hours testifying in an Oakland, California courtroom, mainly trying to explain why the company not only created its own digital rights management (DRM) software, but also why it didn't share it widely with others.


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