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Steve Jobs, the chief executive for Apple Computers made the headlines today. Mr Jobs is a sort of geek superman who helps shape a lot of the agenda for techie stuff, and was a big driving force behind the all conquering ipods and itunes revolution. Anyhows he's calling for record companies to drop the anti piracy restrictions they impose on music downloads. Considering his company has been the biggest driving force behind the expansion of music downloads, has probably got the record companies sitting up and taking notice.
In case you didn't know, when you download music (legally) you are limited to what you can do with that music. You can only use it on certain computers or music players. For example if you buy a song from itunes and put it on an ipod, you can't put it on another ipod. Understandably this has been done to prevent people mass copying music from one source to another, eg one person buys the song but all their mates then copy it to their ipods. However if you have a problem with your ipod, eg it breaks or you upgrade, you then need to buy all the songs you bought the first time round again. Which can leave people feeling a bit miffed, as you effectively have to buy songs twice.
Have i confused you? Probably if you are still reading and want to make sense of all this the BBC has a pretty decent Q&A guide to this topic here
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