RIAA Misreads Jobs’ Open Letter On DRM

The RIAA issued a response today lauding Apple’s offer to license FairPlay as a “welcome breakthrough” that would be a “real victory for fans, artists and labels.” There’s only one problem: Jobs didn’t offer to license FairPlay at all. In fact, he makes it pretty clear that he thinks that switching to an open model for DRM wouldn’t work.

You could easily fill up an entire hard drive with documents describing the RIAAs foolishness. It’s highly unlikely that they completely oblivious to the actual facts though. They simply want to try to turn the tables and brainwash people. Is it working? Nah, but it is funny.

Source: Engadget