"If you want to spread bad news about Napster Inc., just tell Steve Jobs. The Apple Computer Inc. chief executive sent an e-mail Tuesday morning to top record industry executives, alerting them to a security gap in Napster's music service -- a rival to Apple's iTunes online store," reports the LA Times.

"Napster CEO Chris Gorog sent the labels a retort Tuesday afternoon, arguing that such copying programs were neither new nor a problem only for Napster.

"By contrast, he said, it is 'trivial' to download a free program that circumvents Apple's anti-piracy software and unlocks 'a large collection of iTunes music in seconds.' He provided the Web address of a site that supplied such a program."

Comment: Pretty funny for Stevie boy to complain about Napster considering Apple released a program that stripped out its own FairPlay DRM -- iMovie -- and when everyone knows you can remove it by burning to a CD and re-ripping it. Jobs must be more worried about Napster than we thought....