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Article: Your rights reserved? The copy-protection battle will shape Apple's multimedia future.(macbeat)
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- Macworld
- Article date:
- February 1, 2006
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With its video-capable iPod and a new iMac designed to double as a home entertainment system, Apple is quickly becoming as much a multimedia company as a computer vendor. It has already sold more than 600 million songs and more than 28 million iPods, and it passed the one-million-videos-sold mark less than 20 days after making video available at the iTunes Music Store (iTMS).
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But behind that transformation lurks the particularly sticky issue of digital rights management (DRM). DRM is designed to protect the rights of content owners--musicians, record labels, movie studios, and the like. But it can collide with the desires of ...