DRM progress

ShadowDancer

it seems there might be some hope after all for DRM [URL="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6516189.stm"]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6516189.stm[/URL]


opinions?

Falcon1

Progress indeed! Now lets watch all the other lot cry about how they're going to loose all that money and their high payed salaries :) Oh and we're all thieves still ;)

croxis

Here is the press release: [url]http://www.emigroup.com/Press/2007/press18.htm[/url]

Freejack

Finally, a company attempting to work within the demand, rather than attempt to bludgeon demand with a bat.

The idea that there may be tiers of customers who have different demand and would be willing to pay more for music that is more flexible and better quality makes good sense.

Jake

Biggles

Now all they need to do is offer lossless for a reasonable price and I'll be happy.

Sanfam

[i]EMI, the world's third-biggest record label, said every song in its online catalogue will be available in the "premium" format. It said the tracks without locks will cost more and be of higher quality than those it offers now.[/i]

So they'll be out-pricing the market again and will be unable to capture enough sales for it to be a success, and declare that removing DRM didn't actually give any benefits to the listeners, thus enabling them to step it back up again.

ShadowDancer

more than likely, but i'll take any progress over no progress. and we can but hope that it will be a success

Mungrel

Hopefully it will be a success, but Sanfam makes a good point.
I hope they get rid of DRM! :mad: