The vow Tuesday by Apple CEO Steve Jobs — that he would willingly remove copyright protection from songs sold at his company’s iTunes store — was cheered by those who’ve been arguing that digital rights management systems are a failure. Advocates for music-sharing freedom said they expect music labels will eventually abandon the practice, but they doubted the movie industry would follow suit by removing DRM from DVDs, HD DVDs and Blu-ray discs.

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