Warner vs. Apple...DRM to Stay!

The head of Warner Music Edgar Bronfman has said "DRM and interoperability are not the same thing" after Steve Jobs of Apple wrote an open letter to the music industry suggesting that DRM should be abandoned.

It seems that the Warner chief believes it is still possible to protect IP through copy protection mechanisms while ensuring that the consumer experience is vastly improved from the current market offerings.

This a valid point if all the major players in the market - hardware vendors, music companies and artists - will actually work together. If they can't agree to work together then the best way to ensure interoperability is, as Jobs said, to remove the copy protection altogether.