On Jan 12, 2009, at 11:45 AM, Jason Wright wrote:
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Levi Pearson <[email protected]> wrote:
yet a smart company MUST play the game in
order to remain competitive in the market.
Amazon.com seems to be doing fine without DRM, Walmart as well. Heck,
any individual artist selling music on their site almost never uses
DRM.
You are conveniently forgetting that Walmart and Amazon.com selling
DRM-free music happened AFTER Apple started selling DRM-free music
through the iTunes Store. Apple started selling DRM-free tracks in
April 2007, Wal-mart in Aug 2007, and Amazon.com in September 2007
(dates pulled from Ars Technica and Wikipedia articles).
Before that, Wal-mart was playing the SAME DRM game with the same
record labels. Prior to 2007, NONE of the labels were letting their
cash-cow, mainstream artists music onto the market without some sort
of DRM. (eMusic has always had DRM-free MP3 songs, but prior to these
moves, they didn't ever have the mainstream stuff "popular" stuff).
Grant
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