Well, this is surely going to be the buzz of the net for the next few days: Steve Jobs (yeah, that Steve Jobs) has thrown down a gauntlet at the RIAA-lovin’ music companies whose products he pimps. It’s a well-reasoned argument, for the most part. For more insight, you can check out John Gruber’s analysis of it. And, if you find yourself taking this entire topic too seriously, you might want to give yourself a reality check with a few posts from Steve Jobs’ secret blog (especially Thoughts on “Thoughts about Music”, More Thoughts on “Thoughts about Music”, and Even More Thoughts on “Thoughts about Music”). Here’s my favorite quotable:
To put it another way: If DRM is the worst thing you have to deal with in your day-to-day life — if your biggest problem is that you can’t make your iTunes songs play on a Zune — then you should take a minute to thank God for giving you such a wonderful life. And you should immediately get on a plane to some part of the world and do something good for another human being.