On Feb 6, Apple CEO Steve Jobs posted an open letter, "Thoughts on Music" that argued persuasively against Digital Rights Management (DRM). Last week, the CEO of Macrovision (those folks who brought you VHS copy protection, amongst other wonderful things) responded to Jobs, essentially offering to take over the job of adding zero-value-add crippleware to digital music.

The folks at Daring Fireball have a wonderful translation from corporate-speak to English of the Macrovision screed. A sample:

Similarly, consumers who want to consume content on only a single device can pay less than those who want to use it across all of their entertainment areas -- vacation homes, cars, different devices and remotely. Abandoning DRM now will unnecessarily doom all consumers to a "one size fits all" situation that will increase costs for many of them.

Translation:
Abandoning DRM will prevent us from forcing our customers to keep paying us over and over again for the same movies and songs they’ve already paid for.

Well maintained and reasonably implemented DRM will increase the electronic distribution of content, not decrease it.

Translation:
I am high as a kite.

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