You'd pay $30 and up for an album on CD? Are you mad? I suppose you do get a convenient hard copy backup too...
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Mr I Forrester Sent: Mon 02/04/2007 18:53 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] EMI 'in no DRM deal' 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 > > -- > First they ignore you > then they laugh at you > then they fight you > then you win. > - Mohandas Gandhi > - > 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > > - > 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > - 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
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