Why Steve Jobs in Full of Shit

From: http://www.winnetmag.com/windowspaulthurrott/Article/ArticleID/42503/windowspaulthurrott_42503.html

Furthermore, the subscription music services that are gaining traction on the PC side are unsuccessful, Jobs says. "People want to own their music," he noted in a conference call yesterday.

Jobs is full of shit. Rather, he's not full of shit, people do want to own their music. He's just full of shit because he implies that his company allows you to do that via his ubiquitous iPod. You don't own your music on iTunes. If you owned your music you wouldn't be restricted from playing it on only 7 devices (can you only use your toaster on 7 surfaces?). If you owned your music you wouldn't be restricted from burning it on only 10 cds (can you only use your books 10 times?). If you owned your music you wouldn't be prevented from using any other software player on your computer (can you only use one software to play DVDs on your computer?).

Each of these things are distorting our copyright law (which provides that limitations are the EXCEPTION not the RULE) and there ain't a damn thing you can do about it because consumers buy into it.