A modest proposal for the recording industry

Tim Lee has posted an excellent missive addressed to the record labels on the iTunes Music Store:

…every customer who buys your products from the iTunes Music Store becomes locked into Apple products. If that’s not changed, that will soon make Steve Jobs the most powerful man in your industry.

Fortunately, there’s an easy solution: when you renew your contract, you should demand that Apple remove the digital rights management (DRM) technology from the iTunes Music Store.

Brilliantly counterintuitive. Not going to happen, of course.