Warner attacks Jobs

WARNER MUSIC boss Edgar Bronfman has attacked Apple's messiah Steve Jobs over his suggestion the music industry should dump DRM.

According to Computerworld, Bronfman said that Jobs' suggestion that the major music label companies should abandon digital tunes copy protection was "completely without merit".

Warner will continue to use DRM, he said. The idea that music does not deserve the same protection as software, film, video games or other intellectual property, simply because there is an unprotected legacy product in the physical world, "was completely without logic or merit."

Bronfman is the first music industry bigwig to tell Jobs' to go forth and multiply. But he urged Apple and the music industry to continue working together. Bronfman seemed to suggest that Jobs' comments might have something to do with the discussions that Apple is above to have over the supply of music to iTunes. Bronfman said that "manifestos in advance of those discussions" was " counter-productive".

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