QJ Blogger Victor B has previously reported on Steve Jobs' suggestion  to abandon digital tunes copy protection earlier this week. Here's a bitter and yet somewhat expected update to that report. Warner Music CEO Edgar Bronfman has rejected that suggestion, saying that they advocate the continued use of DRM. Bronfman explains:

The notion that music does not deserve the same protection as software, film, video games or other intellectual property, simply because there is an unprotected legacy product in the physical world, is completely without logic or merit.

Jobs, in his open letter, has criticised major labels including Warner, EMI, Sony, and Universal for demanding DRM on their music sold online while at the same time selling billions of CDs containing unprotected tracks.

PC World reports that Bronfman is the first executive of a major recording company to respond to Steve Job's open letter. Bronfman reportedly urges Apple and the music industry to continue working with each other. Bronfman adds, "Frankly, manifestos in advance of those discussions is counter-productive."