Passing this along just because it seems to indicate that there may be light at the end of the music-DRM tunnel.
Amalyah Keshet Chair, MCN IP SIG ----- Original Message ----- http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070606/BUSINESS11/706060407/1436/BUSINESS05 http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070615/ Friday, 06/15/07 EMI cashes in on unprotected music sales Franklin-based PassAlong Networks to sell DRM-free music from record company's digital catalog By DON JEFFREY Bloomberg News NEW YORK ? EMI Group PLC's digital revenue may rise from offering music without software that prevents copying, based on early sales of unprotected recordings through Apple Inc.'s iTunes store. "The initial results of DRM-free music are good," Lauren Berkowitz, a senior vice president of London-based EMI, said Wednesday at a music industry conference in New York. ... <http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40443> EMI has DRM free sales boom Dump the protection increase the sales By Nick Farrell: Wednesday 20 June 2007, 08:41 ... Since EMI ditched the DRM on iTunes it has seen sales of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon increase by between 272 and 350 percent. ... According to Bloomberg, digital sales for other DRM free music increased by between 17 to 24 per cent. OK Go's Oh No increased 77 per cent. Coldplay's A Rush Of Blood To The Head jumped 115 per cent (From: "Fred von Lohmann EFF" <fred at eff.org>)
