Anonymous

Redmond, WA

Developer

Keep Governement out of Private Enterprise as much as possible! The Feds wanting to get into DRM, figures. And of course, count on some Fed. DRM tax thrown in for good measure!

Apple and MicroSoft will NEVER work together on DRM. Rather, if Apple starts losing the online music battle to MS and it's HW partners, you can bet Apple will start to play an open ended game with HW manufactures, or give them Napster and others the DRM key to sell Apple's Fairplay music from their online stores in order to keep iPod sales strong.

Bottom line is the consumer will decide if they like a vertical solution in the iPod/iTunes scenario, or if they find other players and stores with MicroSoft's technology the better route. So far, consumers don't seem to be minding either direction they have gone.