Thursday, December 07, 2006

EMI: first step towards a non-DRMed distribution? Probably not.

Looks like record label EMI is doing some experimenting with their distribution formats, finally figuring out that 1) DRM is not good for the consumer and 2) DRM sucks if you're anyone but Apple, who, having the dominant hardware and software in the market, can lock in the consumers to their products. So EMI is distributing non-DRMed music files for 99 cents on Yahoo! Music.

However, this decision only affects a very limited number of artists and was done with "general resistance" from the executives at EMI. Don't expect this to be the first few cracks in the dam before it explodes...

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