iTunes and DRM

John Gruber (the Daring Fireball guy) can be a bit of a nutcase, but he has a perfect explanation of why DRM doesn’t make sense:

It’s almost impossible to see how allowing Apple to sell DRM-free music through iTunes would make piracy worse. Music piracy is already rampant. There is not a single song on iTunes that can’t be downloaded for free from a P2P network.

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