The iPod plays two kinds of music: music crippled with Apple's DRM and MP3s.

-- Cory Doctorow, Universal goes DRM-free, BoingBoing, 9 August 2007.

Not true. The iPod plays two kinds of music - crippled with DRM, and free of DRM. Or the two major types of music file format - MP3 and AAC (AIFF and some other DRM-free formats are also supported on higher-end iPod models.) There are no DRM-encrypted MP3s. The AAC format provides higher audio quality than MP3, but doesn't have to be encrypted. AAC is an industry standard format and the successor to the MP3 format.

For record companies, there are only two choices: sell Apple-crippled music and increase Apple's control over the online music business, or sell uncrippled music.

And what about the third choice, which EMI took in April - selling uncrippled music through Apple, which might increase Apple's control over online music?

Doctorow has never let mere facts get in the way of his rhetoric.