Free Software Foundation's Open Letter to Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs

The Free Software Foundation's anti-DRM advocacy group at defectivebydesign.org as written an open letter to Steve Jobs requesting that he make good on his pledge to adopt DRM free policies at Apple. Steve Jobs has written that if the major labels allowed him to sell DRM free music Apple would "embrace it in a heartbeat."

The Free Software Foundation requests that Steve Jobs and Apple do one of the following things by April 1st to prove his intentions (I'm actually less interested in the deadline, it may be unrealistic for Apple to adopt these policies in that time frame because of technical constraints, but the idea is solid):

1. Sell music from independent artists DRM-free via the iTunes Store.
2. Sell Disney movies DRM-free via the iTunes Store.
3. Funding a campaign against the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act).
   

I'm not sure that Disney is ready to remove DRM from it's movies and that seems like a tall request to me, but the first and third requests are extremely viable. I'd like to see it happen.

Go ahead and read and consider signing the open letter to Steve Jobs at defectivebydesign.org.