‘iPod users are music thieves’ says Steve Ballmer, Micro$oft CEO

In a recent article on the Silicon.com website, Andy McCue quotes Ballmer as saying: “We’ve had DRM in Windows for years. The most common format of music on an iPod is ‘stolen’.”

Of course, now that Microsoft has finally entered the online music store market, selling their flavor of digitally “secured” music,
one would think it hypocritical that the M$ CEO would attack/disparage the leading source of legal downloadable music, Apple. With over 100 Millions songs sold, Apple’s iPods and the iTunes Music Store is M$ major music competitor.

One might be tempted to think this is just another campaign of Microsoft FUD – twisting the truth over backwards in an effort to spread Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt, as they have done repeatedly in the campaign against Linux and Anything Not From Microsoft …

Of course, there are those who think Ballmer is secretly a fan
of the slick little iPods that are selling so well – http://homepage.mac.com/trianglejuice/iblog/C1683193892/E2045005395/Media/ba
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