Macworld: Apple is Music Industry's Biggest Enemy

Macworld editor Dan Moren writes that as the largest purveyor of music in the U.S., Apple holds tremendous sway over the music-buying population—and that understandably worries the record companies. So, naturally, they’re going to fight it somehow, and they’re doing it by holding back DRM-free tracks from Apple.

Instead, they’re offering them to other stores, like Napster and the Amazon MP3 store, in an effort to boost those stores’ revenue and make them stronger against Apple.

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