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The world calls Steve Jobs a hypocrite
February 8, 2007
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7:00 AM -- NEW YORK -- The other day, after seeing 3,450 news items and blogs fawn over Steve Jobs's sudden "kill digital rights management" (DRM) revelation, I was thinking (other than, what was he smoking?): "Yeah, but what do people really think?"
Yesterday, I heard the real deal. Here at the Digital Hollywood Media Summit, the keynote panelists opened up the floodgates of Steve Jobs rippage when asked what they thought about his now-infamous DRM essay asking that anti-pirating software be abandoned:
"I don't understand what the point was," said Daniel Scheinman, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO)'s Media Solutions Group. "As a company in litigation with them, I find it wildly ironic that a technology company is taking the techno-liberation view: 'Free the stuff from iPod.' "
"It's hysterical on many levels," said Jason Hirschhorn, president of Sling Media Inc. Entertainment. "If you are so concerned, then open up FairPlay... The whole thing is ridiculous!"
"The statement of 'everything in my walled garden should be freed,' doesn't quite work," said Frank E. Dangeard, chairman & CEO of Thomson S.A. (NYSE: TMS; Euronext Paris: 18453).
Wow, excellent. That's not your usual watered-down panel. Thanks guys.
— R. Scott Raynovich, Editor in Chief, Light Reading
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