Mitch Bainwol, head of the RIAA, responded to Steve Jobs's "Thoughts on Music" by way of thorough agreement. No one seems to have the full Bainwol letter online, though the substance depicts Bainwol as more than happy to endorse Jobs's thought-experiment of licensing Apple's Fairplay DRM to all the world. Of course, Jobs only mentioned that possibility in order to strike it down as impractical. Bainwol dismisses such concerns, purring, "We have no doubt that a technology company as sophisticated and smart as Apple could work with the music community to make that happen." Beware the record man — he speaks with forked tongue.

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