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One thing Jobs left out in his broad essay was the sneaky way the music was sold on the iTunes store as encrypted files. I was burned by this. After initially be frustrated that there were no online stores to buy the tunes I wanted, when iTunes really started to broaden its selection, I made a principled decision to "go legit", deleting all the music files I had gotten illegally, and purchasing them from iTunes, purely to support the artists and reward the industry for waking up. Months later I discovered that I had bought load of music files that had controls stapled onto them of what I could do with them, that would only play on Mac computers. The wedding of content to hardware should never have happened and Apple should have been more forthright about what it was "selling." Buying a piece of media with restrictions on it is closer to renting something than buying it. Still, this is an encouraging essay. If he ever gets his wish, I hope they give everybody who bought DRM files the keys to unlock them.