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Die Plattfirma EMI hat als erste der vier Großen einen Vertrag mit Snocap abgeschlossen, um DRM-freie Musik über Blogs und Social-Networking-Seiten zu verkaufen. Die Titel gibt es im MP3-Format mit 320 KBit/s.<!--/content--> 

Can you address the seeming conflict between the fact that Kevin Rose has a show available for download (The Broken) that contains illegal hacks for DVDs, XBox games and CDs, but Digg removed a post from a user that contained information that would allow someone to hack an HD DVD?

Revision3 is a content creator, not a content aggregator. There is no similarity between the two businesses. You are refering to a show where the two hosts played characters that are exaggerations. The intent is to be funny. Obviously they make jokes about pirating and hacking.

What about the assertion that because Kevin’s show DiggNation had HD DVD as a sponsor this is somehow connected to the deletion of the HD DVD hack code on Digg.com?

Diggnation is a show where they discuss their dissatisfaction with DRM. But there is no connection between the shows on Revision3 and Digg.com.

OK, but the show DiggNation is primarily based on posts listed on the Digg.com website. The content on Digg.com is the meat of the DiggNation show...

In the case of HD DVD being a sponsor on Revision3, if Revision3 takes a call from an agency that wants advertising space on DiggNation, it is no way connected to anything that’s on Digg.com.

On another note, I see that you recently opened Digg’s API to the public. But in the recent past Kevin Rose mentioned that Digg would have to protect its trademark. So far, Twitter has allowed sites to exist with “twitter” in their names as more users experiment with the Twitter API. Along the same lines, will you continue to go after sites that use the Digg API and use “digg” in their names?

Good question. We never cared about people using Digg’s data. The issue is if someone creates a site that uses Digg in the domain name. If it were just up to us, we would allow it. But if someone names a product or sells a product with Digg in the name, it is an issue and we could have to enforce our trademark. But you pose a very good question. You can expect some commentary in the future about how we intend to deal with the trademark issue.

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Die Wahl von AAC sei aber ebenso eine Business-Entscheidung von Apple gewesen, wie die Erhöhung des Preises für dieses "Premium-Angebot", beides müssten andere Partner nicht wiederholen. Vor allem letzteres verblüfft einigermaßen, hatte sich Steve Jobs doch in den letzten Jahren regelmäßig öffentlich gegen die Wünsche der Musikindustrie den Preis für einzelne Songs zu erhöhen, verwehrt.

 Scholl said flatly that DRM doesn't work. "The idea that DRM gives us choice isn't right," he said.  

 "The economics of the business are over for good and aren't ever going to be the way they were before," Scholl said. This is a position that some in the music industry are starting to warm up to.

This ignores the fact that some of the music on the iTunes store is also available without FairPlay or indeed DRM of any sort from other, less restrictive, services like eMusic. 

  It also ignores the reality that Microsoft's widely licensed system has been cracked the same number of times as Fairplay, so the evidence would seem to indicate that Jobs fears are not justified.

But Jobs can see which way the wind is blowing, and he can see that the record companies are finally tiring of their painful, expensive and ultimately unsatisfactory relationship with DRM. 

 They have stopped trying to sell broken CDs that can't be ripped to disk, and as a result nearly all of the music that they so painstakingly control when sold over the net is available at higher quality and lower cost to anyone who cares to spend the time taking it.