The most surprising announcement yesterday from the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, if you were following the feed at MacRumors, was the phrase "STEVE JOBS JUST DIED" that had been inserted by hackers along with some slightly more philosophical observations such as "Iz me your emperor". After you'd abandoned the MacRumors website in search of something that didn't consist entirely of mildly amusing anti-Mac childishness, you'd have discovered the news that Apple have overhauled the iTunes store by introducing a new pricing model and removing digital rights management (or DRM) from all of the tracks thereon by the end of March.

This news was met with wild applause in the conference centre, but this wasn't a brave, crusading move to lead the music industry out of crisis. ( Read more... )