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[PSUs]| Tuesday 15th March 2005 |
Napster boss claims Apple's Jobs is running scared
10:38AM, Tuesday 15th March 2005
The boss of Napster has described Apple CEO Steve Jobs as 'pretty frightened' for allegedly forwarding an email that included instructions on breaking Napster's digital right management technology.
entire one million song library, as long as they continue to subscribe. The email which circulated shortly after the service began and was reproduced on many a blog, described the simple process of using an audio recording utility to 'break' the DRM. Jobs is rumoured to have forwarded the email, despite the fact that the same technique can be used to break any audio DRM, including the one that Apple uses for its iTunes Music Store
'My first reaction was that he must be pretty frightened of the Napster To Go technology to be so petty,' said Chris Gorog, Napster's CEO. 'Frankly, that's what I think the impetus was for him to fire that off. It was really pretty silly.
Napster To Go enables subscribers to download the online music stores
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Gorog said that Napster, 'saw it as a sign of weakness, that he's very concerned about a technology that makes his hardware and his software irrelevant in our view.'
In the interview with Engadget, Gorog also claimed that Apple exaggerated its share of the portable player market and that we live in a 'Windows Media Audio world'. The full interview can be read at www.engadget.com.
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