There's something more than a little ironic to hear Hilary Rosen - former boss of the RIAA - complaining that about the incompatibility between her iPod and non-Apple download sites.
The new iPod my girlfriend gave me is a trap. Yeah, it is great looking and I really love the baby blue leather case but when, oh when, will Steve Jobs let me buy music from somewhere other than the Apple iTunes store and put it on my iPod?
I'm no fan of Apple's lock-in method, even if I can see why they're doing it. But it's not about why Apple's machines doesn't like other DRM: it's about DRM as a whole.
Why not just give us plain old vanilla MP3 and be done with it? Because Rosen, and the RIAA, didn't want that to happen. This is what happens when you get everyone fighting to produce the strongest version of a format. Perhaps Rosen shouldn't be surprised at the results.
