EMI's move to release its catalogue without music protection has been welcomed, but critics claim Apple still has a lock-in.
The wired world, so they say, moves faster than meatspace. In that case, one month, three weeks and five days might seem like an awfully long time to the digerati.
But that's how long it took between Steve Jobs publishing his Thoughts on Music - an open essay telling the recording industry to drop copy protection - and EMI's announcement this week that it was going to offer downloads without Digital Rights Management (DRM).

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