Somebody is doing it!
Apr. 2nd, 2007 04:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bladesparkHot dog! There's a major music label offering high quality digital downloads without DRM! http://subs.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10432317
Man, if I had more money floating around, I'd be spending so much there! Just the very idea makes me gleeful.
I hope I'm not the only one. In fact I hope this does so well that EMI starts to totally pown the digital market. The article seems to be saying that the other companies are tisking at EMI for diving into this without doing enough research beforehand. I say who needs more research?! What's the worst that could happen? The worst that could happen is they make a few sales and then sales would drop off as the pirates got the pirateable music and spread it around to everyone. But that's BUNK, really, because there's hardly a song on the planet you can't pirate already! You can even get super high-quality versions of most of 'em. So what then? DRM-free just doesn't sell? It's not selling now, since there's no such thing.
And given that the DRM-free songs are also very high quality, well... some of us would pay the extra just for that, and others would pay it for the conveniences of being able to use it on all their devices and send copies to friends, while yet others have personal and moral objectsions to DRM, and will pay the extra just to not have it on their music. Between the three things, I figure they're going to make a killing.
I've said for a long time that the first music label to ditch DRM is going to clean up. I really didn't expect to get a chance to see if I was right so soon though.
Man, if I had more money floating around, I'd be spending so much there! Just the very idea makes me gleeful.
I hope I'm not the only one. In fact I hope this does so well that EMI starts to totally pown the digital market. The article seems to be saying that the other companies are tisking at EMI for diving into this without doing enough research beforehand. I say who needs more research?! What's the worst that could happen? The worst that could happen is they make a few sales and then sales would drop off as the pirates got the pirateable music and spread it around to everyone. But that's BUNK, really, because there's hardly a song on the planet you can't pirate already! You can even get super high-quality versions of most of 'em. So what then? DRM-free just doesn't sell? It's not selling now, since there's no such thing.
And given that the DRM-free songs are also very high quality, well... some of us would pay the extra just for that, and others would pay it for the conveniences of being able to use it on all their devices and send copies to friends, while yet others have personal and moral objectsions to DRM, and will pay the extra just to not have it on their music. Between the three things, I figure they're going to make a killing.
I've said for a long time that the first music label to ditch DRM is going to clean up. I really didn't expect to get a chance to see if I was right so soon though.