Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Macrovision CEO Fred Amoroso's Response to Steve Jobs's 'Thoughts on Music'

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17 Feb 2007

Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Macrovision CEO Fred Amoroso’s Response to Steve Jobs’s 'Thoughts on Music' — Funny paragraph-by-paragraph rebuttal of the DRM industry’s response to Steve Jobs. "Magic interoperable DRM would give people all the features and capabilities they get with DRM-free media."

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