Hopefully Sony will realise now that they can't manipulate Apple in
this way. If Apple went ahead with the iTMS in Australia without
Sony there would be a fair amount of unavailable Australian artists
but new artists who might want their songs available online may be
discouraged from signing up with Sony/BMG. They might even feel
encouraged to do it themselves without any record company....
Not something I can picture Sony being very happy about.
Ruben A. Franke
This is a quote from someone on Slashdot who goes by the name of
'curmi' who I am guessing is Jamie Curmi (author of Launch!).
<quote>
Bigger news is that there are no Sony songs on iTMS Japan!
The story is that this is the current hold up in Australia. Sony/
BGM in Australia won't allow iTMS Australia to use their songs
unless Apple agrees to sell the songs in Apple's Fairplay AAC,
Microsoft's Windows Media format, and Sony's own ATRAC format.
It looks like Apple Japan just went ahead without Sony on board.
If only they would do that in Australia...maybe Sony BGM is just
too big a monopoly in Australia to be able to do this?
There is a similar thread on appletalk.com.au about this.
Unfortunately Sony/BMG has the monopoly on Australian artists too :-
( There won't be much content on iTMS au with out Sony :-p
Seeya
Rod!
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