”Credit iTunes with really establishing a border around intellectual property...
"Credit iTunes with really establishing a border around intellectual property and music,” Logitech President Bracken Darrell said in a keynote Q-and-A session Saturday at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin. Before iTunes, “there was this outright piracy everywhere,” said…
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Darrell, whose company introduced an Ultimate Ears-branded Bluetooth boombox and other wireless music products at IFA. “I mean, everybody was downloading everything, all kinds of music,” he said. “It was terrible for the artist. I would say iTunes really re-established that, and now Pandora, Spotify and others are creating new ways to consume that safe music that are consistent with intellectual property rights. It will always be a battle, I'm sure, and I'm no expert on how this will play out in the future. But it’s certainly in all of our best interests to protect the intellectual property of device makers and music makers. Anything we all can do to help fan that going forward is a good thing.”