Steve Jobs could have easily designed the iPod to make it inhospitable to stolen music. But he initially refused to build the iPod so that it would block unlicensed content. At the same time Jobs’s device enabled piracy, Jobs himself decried digital thievery. He was playing a cunning game: After helping push the music business to the brink, he would save it and come to dominate it. Eighteen months after creating the iPod, he debuted an online store, iTunes, that became the place where a vast percentage of all music was purchased. In the face of piracy, enfeebled producers lay prostrate in
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