Shorter Steve Jobs: "DRM sucks, and we’d be totally psyched if those idiotic record companies would stop insisting that we use it".

It’s about time someone with a little pull in the industry just came out and said it. Now that I subscribe to eMusic, I’ve really slowed down my iTMS purchases. In fact, the last two albums that I bought that were not on eMusic were actual CDs — CDs that have no DRM at all, and thus nothing with which to stop me from burning a billion copies or, better yet, tossing up on any file sharing network.

As a follow up, Daring Fireball has a must-read analysis, natch.