Wow. Check this out. Thoughts on Music by Steve Jobs I've heard a lot of people predict that 2007 will be the year DRM will finally go away. But I never thought I'd hear the guy in charge of the worlds most popular online music store publicly come out against DRM in such a direct way. That's got to carry some weight. Here's some choice quotes.

"Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store can sell music which is playable on all players. This is clearly the best alternative for consumers, and Apple would embrace it in a heartbeat." "DRMs haven’t worked, and may never work, to halt music piracy. Though the big four music companies require that all their music sold online be protected with DRMs, these same music companies continue to sell billions of CDs a year which contain completely unprotected music."