Music industry rounds on Steve Jobs

Meeting at the Digital Music Forum East conference, representatives of the music industry lashed out at Jobs. They said his call for DRM-free music was "insincere" and a "red herring."

They said that Apple has maintained a stranglehold on the digital music industry by locking up iTunes music with DRM.

Big wigs told the audience that if Jobs was really sincere about doing away with DRM, he would soon release movies from Disney without any software protection. Jobs has a lot of shares in the Mickey Mouse outfit, and Disney too.

According to News.com Mike Bebel, CEO of Ruckus music service, said that the problem was Apple's proprietary implementation of technology. He said it was causing everybody else who is participating in the marketplace a lot of pain.

He said if Apple opened up its DRM everybody would love it.

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