On 05/02/07, Jason Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> withdrew DRM, since it totally failed, like it always will iTunes Music Store (solely selling DRMed content?) appears to be doing pretty well... over 2bn songs, 50m TV episodes and 1.3m films sold [1]. It turned over around $1.7bn last financial year [2]. Doesn't make it right, of course, but it's hardly "failed".
iTMS has not failed financially. The iTMS finances are different to its DRM, which has failed. Big Champagne, a company that monitors P2P networks, estimated the typical time it took DRM music available 'exclusively' on the iTunes Music Store to appear, clean of DRM, on P2P networks: Less than three minutes. (Using http://hymn-project.org/, 3 minute quote from http://www.craphound.com/hpdrm.txt) And burning music to CD and reimporting it is a very widely known circumvention, although scoffed at by the more adept sharing communities. Most importantly, iTMS fails ethically, because it destroys the spirit of sharing that is the basis of a good society. Even the kids of record company CEOs do filesharing. For the BBC to fail in this regard is a bigger deal than for Apple. -- Regards, Dave - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
