news with the added flavor of time, and the spicy kick of impact

[thailyn]

In a similar vein to yesterday's post, an interesting question to ask is how do news publications impact events? The story that spurred this thought was Steve Jobs' denouncement of DRM last February (NPR story: "Apple's Jobs Argues Against Song Protections"). At the time, all of the four major record labels (Sony BMG, Warner Music Group, EMI, and

Comments

[lukertin]

Incorrect, Steve Jobs loves DRM. If he hated it he would have never accepted those iTunes contracts. What a sleazy piece of shit, say one thing when public opinion goes in the other direction when he already promoted the opposite years ago.

Also, newspapers are useless and obsolete. I doubt any of them gave two shits about DRM until Steve Jobs opened his gigantic lying mouth and spewed worthless shit about how he was against DRM, everyone who cares about DRM is not buying music from DRM'd sources anyway, so it's nothing important. All DRM-initiatives besides iTunes have pretty much failed for this reason, and the movies, tv shows, and music that idiot comsumers bought are useless and inaccessible.

The market will work itself out.