How FairPlay Works: Apple’s iTunes DRM Dilemma

How FairPlay Works: Apple’s iTunes DRM Dilemma: “Why can’t the music industry just adopt an open standard for DRM? The simple answer is that the basic concept of interoperable DRM makes no sense. Since the point of DRM is to limit interoperability by using secrets, there is no open way to deliver a DRM system that does what it’s supposed to do.” - what Dan Martinez once described as a system to simultaneously give you tea and no tea.