April 28, 2003
Apple Launches iTunes Music Store
Here’s the press release. My favorite part of the release is Steve Jobs saying, “The iTunes Music Store offers the revolutionary rights to burn an unlimited number of CDs for personal use.” Funny, I don’t find that revolutionary at all, given that I’ve been burning copies of CDs for the last 5 years.
Filed by Derek Slater at 5:36 pm under General news
6 Comments
I think Steve’s point was the “right” to burn a CD without having the RIAA on your @ss. The big guys have tried to eliminate the right to make copies of CDs (even security copies) … buying from the iTunes Music store will give you additional rights to the music you won’t get (yet) from other services.
Right – the point is, revolutionary compared to what? I don’t think the baseline for comparison should be MusicNet and PressPlay.
Steve was just taking about online services. Yes, he didn’t make it explicit, but, you know, that’s how humans talk…
Seems pretty revolutionary to me. But maybe I’m just normal.
Well, the technology isn’t revolutionary to you and me, on the other hand getting Hillary Rosen to budge an inch on online music that gives rights to users (not all, it isn’t perfect) has to be up there with the storming of the Bastille.
I don’t think it is revolutionary, maybe intuitive at best.