Got to say I'd personally be happy paying up to $3 a song if it was DRM
free and recorded at a high bit rate.
Cheers
Ian
Jeremy Stone wrote:
The DRM free songs are going to be more expensive I notice
$1.29 a song as opposed to 99c.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/04/02itunes.html
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy
Sent: 02 April 2007 14:27
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: Re: [backstage] EMI 'in no DRM deal'
On 02/04/07, Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Just to keep Auntie on her toes, another company that is a TLA has
decided to not bother with wasteful DRM:
http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,,2048195,00.html?gusrc=rs
s&feed
=4
Or the BBC article on the matter (which doesn't require registration):
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6516189.stm>
And I nearly forgot what TLA meant! How stupid of me.
Not sure I trust Steve Jobs when he said:
"The right thing to do is to tear down walls that precluded
interoperability by going DRM-free and that starts here today."
(from the BBC article linked above)
Was he not the guy who put up the walls to start with?
Nice to see some record companies considering this kind of thing.
I hope it will be available without iTunes.
Apparently the files will be "higher quality", doubt it will be lossless
though.
Pity really, but then it would cost them more to shift the files,
bandwidth ain't free (unless you use P2P then it's someone else's
bandwidth being used).
Can't remember who's on EMI though. Hopefully this could be a snowball
effect?
Maybe EMI might be realizing that one all powerful content distributer
isn't good for them either?
Oh well enough of my idle speculation.
Official press release:
<http://www.emigroup.com/Press/2007/press18.htm>
Andy
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First they ignore you
then they laugh at you
then they fight you
then you win.
- Mohandas Gandhi
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