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Wow. Steve Jobs has posted an open letter on Apple's website essentially calling for the big four music companies to abolish their restriction that music sold through iTunes be done with DRM. This combined with hints from Bill Gates that he'd love to see DRM dropped as well, may actually move the discussion to the right players - the music companies themselves. (After all, not only have they pushed for DRM, they actually blackmailed Microsoft into giving them money for every Zune sold!)

It's nice to see the big technology companies are starting to push for the right thing - even if it is because the hassle of keeping up the DRM and recent court battles have pushed them into this position.