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Warner Music
華納音樂
At the beginning of 2002 Apple faced a challenge.
2002年初，蘋果公司遇到了一個挑戰(zhàn)。
The seamless connection between your iPod, iTunes software, and computer made it easy to manage the music you already owned.
iPod、iTunes軟件和計算機之間的無縫連接以讓你更方便地管理音樂。
But to get new music, you had to venture out of this cozy environment and go buy a CD or download the songs online.
但是如果要得到新的音樂，你必須要離開這樣一個“舒適”的環(huán)境，去外面購買CD，或者在網(wǎng)上下載歌曲。
The latter endeavor usually meant foraying into the murky domains of file-sharing and piracy services.
如果選擇第二種方式，就意味著要涉足文件分享和盜版服務的灰色地帶。
So Jobs wanted to offer iPod users a way to download songs that was simple, safe, and legal.
所以，喬布斯希望給iPod用戶提供一個簡單、安全且合法的下載音樂的方式。
The music industry also faced a challenge.
音樂產(chǎn)業(yè)也面臨著一個挑戰(zhàn)。
It was being plagued by a bestiary of piracy services -- Napster, Grokster, Gnutella, Kazaa
它其實已經(jīng)受到了一系列盜版的侵害--Napster, Grokster、Gnutella, Kazza
that enabled people to get songs for free.
人們可以從這些服務商那里下載免費歌曲。
Partly as a result, legal sales of CDs were down 9% in 2002.
正是在一定程度上受到了這樣的沖擊，2002年正版CD的銷量下降了9%。
The executives at the music companies were desperately scrambling,
音樂公司的高層們都陷入了極度混亂，
with the elegance of second-graders playing soccer, to agree on a common standard for copy-protecting digital music.
不過卻不能像啟斯東警察般在瘋狂中保持精確的思考，他們迫切地需要制定保護數(shù)字音樂版權(quán)的通用標準。
Paul Vidich of Warner Music and his corporate colleague Bill Raduchel of AOL Time Warner were working with Sony in that effort,
當時，華納音樂的保羅·維迪奇和同屬A0L時代華納集團的比爾·拉杜切爾為此正在和索尼公司合作，協(xié)同制定規(guī)則，
and they hoped to get Apple to be part of their consortium.
他們希望把蘋果公司也拉進來。
So a group of them flew to Cupertino in January 2002 to see Jobs.
于是，一行人在2002年1月飛到庫比蒂諾去見喬布斯。
