Five biggest things Steve Jobs got rid of

DRM in iTunes store
It was in April of last year that Jobs, alongside EMI, decided it was about time to stop whipping their paying customers around the goolies, and get rid of the DRM that has for so long acted as a cancer on their music.

For those of you not familiar with DRM, let us summarise. If you steal music over BitTorrent, you get to enjoy it on any device you've paid for. If you decide to be honest and pay for your music, you're heavily restricted on what you can do with it. So if you buy from iTunes, it'll only ever work on Apple products.

Anyway, the iTunes Store from that moment became far more attractive, as EMI's entire catalogue of music was not only lifted to twice the encoding bit rate, but also snatched from the searing-hot, leprosy-encrusted jaws of demented music industry execs.

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