Comments on: Will DRM Die Today?

By: EMI and and Apple Announce DRM-Free Partnership | Creepy Sleepy

EMI and and Apple Announce DRM-Free Partnership | Creepy Sleepy — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:41:54 +0000

[...] Today Apple and EMI announced a deal that sets a new precedent in the digital distribution of media content. EMI will distribute it’s entire digital catalog on iTunes DRM-free. The songs will be provided at a higher bit-rate – 256kbps ACC as opposed to 128kbps – and sold for $0.30. Techcrunch has been following the story. [...]

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By: Catalyze This » Blog Archive » How can you control the net? And what the heck is “09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0″?

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 05:31:44 +0000

[...] are sorely lacking in many industries where the business has had its way for many years. Props to Apple and EMI for getting the ball rolling, of course. A more detailed explanation by Steve Jobs of the types of [...]

By: dan

dan — Tue, 01 May 2007 05:22:50 +0000

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By: MG

MG — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 03:06:52 +0000

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By: DRM-Free Music, iTunes and Sir Bono at HearYa: An Indie Music Blog

DRM-Free Music, iTunes and Sir Bono at HearYa: An Indie Music Blog — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 14:51:43 +0000

[...] EMI (along with Steve Jobs) announced today that it will be offering its entire digital music library DRM-free on iTunes. The DRM-free tunes will be available for $1.29 each, but if you’ve already purchased the same song for $0.99, you’ll only need to pay the difference. I read it first at TechCrunch. [...]

By: Tom Morris

Tom Morris — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 01:00:35 +0000

Oh, for Christ’s sake, Steve Jobs hasn’t killed DRM. DRM was stillborn. The technology is broken by design. You can’t have a system – as Cory Doctorow points out – where you give someone the lock and the key and expect it not to be broken. The whole premise is faulty. It doesn’t prevent distribution of copyrighted material. It’s just a huge waste-of-time that causes tech support headaches for users and wastes the money of those making products.

Unfortunately, this utterly useless and pointless technology will continue for a while until someone at the other record companies has a similarly logical epiphany. DRM won’t die today just as superstition never dies. However stupid the idea is, there’s always someone a teeny bit more stupid who’ll buy it.

By: David Short

David Short — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 21:01:31 +0000

I think this move is more symbolic than anything else. Record companies already sell “non DRM” content in the form of CD’s for about the same price (in the UK, anyway.)

Of course, we should underestimate the power of symbolism and the long term effect this will have on DRM in all sectors…..

By: Garth

Garth — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:54:31 +0000

CD’s are still a way better deal if you buy albums, and can be encoded in whatever format you choose.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 16:08:23 +0000

Thomas – I don’t understand your attitude here.

First of all, I don’t know if it has as much to do with Steve Jobs ‘figuring’ anything out as much as it does with Apple’s position in the digital music market. Truth be told, they have much sway. Labels probably also trust that if they say they know something about the market, they probably do. (And not only that, but all that happened is that Jobs himself finally started listening to the masses of people who have been begging for DRM free music for years! It’s not like they had to do a lot of research or anything.)

Secondly, there’s absolutely no reason that this will cause a significant increase in music being availible on file-sharing sites/applications because the music was already there anyway, and very few CDs are DRM’ed CDs (i.e. rootkits or whatever type of protection they’ve come up with, and all of those have been hacked anyway).

Also, Christopher Sisk, you echo my sentiment exactly!

By: Christopher Sisk

Christopher Sisk — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:18:47 +0000

Steve Jobs did nothing but take the opportunity to sound like the “cool guy”.. He and Apple had ample time to introduce DRM free music with independent labels and never did.

Its nice that EMI is taking a step in the right direction… but lets not give ANY credit to Apple or Steve Jobs.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:06:58 +0000

Jobs should get the credit because he was the only one to figure out how to convince a major label to do it with their cooperation, not force them to do it through illegal piracy. Taking the right road in this case proved to be much tougher than the brute force approach.
I think this will end badly for EMI and prove once and for all that non-DRM’d music is a horrible idea. I look forward to firing up Kazaa for all of my soon to be found EMI content!

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 14:37:06 +0000

Andrew – that’s a whole different discussion. Jobs will have his place in history, although many others have been pushing for the death of DRM as well.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 13:45:23 +0000

Michael, I note that the sentence “If EMI does in fact announce that they will sell music without DRM, Jobs is going to get most or all of the credit” does not include the word “deserve.” Is that significant?
Yes, this comment does follow on from Chris’…

By: Tom Morris

Tom Morris — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 13:27:40 +0000

“Maybe this is a stupid question, but if none of the music sold has DRM on it, what prevents everyone from just copying it?”

Nothing. But nothing stops anyone from copying now.

By: felix

felix — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:41:54 +0000

Looks like this actually happened!

http://www.emig...007/press18.htm

I blogged about it a little here:

http://comments...free-on-itunes/

By: Lucas

Lucas — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:28:26 +0000

Stream is up here

http://w3.canto...s.php?task=view

By: greg

greg — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:27:03 +0000

Did anyone check out mattcutts blog today.. looks like it has been hacked or is Matt giving us an April fool joke a bit too late

By: EMI, Apple Are Announcing Sale Of Non-DRM Music

EMI, Apple Are Announcing Sale Of Non-DRM Music — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:25:10 +0000

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By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:55:13 +0000

What would really kill me is if Jobs DOES get credit for banishing DRM, considering he’s its pioneer and primary profiteer next to the labels… if anything, he should get credit for the proliferation of DRM.

By: StartupMeme

StartupMeme — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:52:04 +0000

Just a side thought, I cant help wondering how much powerful can one man become, Steve Jobs has now singlehandedly taken the Music industry and Hollywood to task, and when he talks the markets listen.

By: Goodbye DRM? at web adventures

Goodbye DRM? at web adventures — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:50:07 +0000

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By: Startup Meme » The Empire of DRM is Falling, EMI First Soldier Down

Startup Meme » The Empire of DRM is Falling, EMI First Soldier Down — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:47:36 +0000

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By: Joshua Kaufman

Joshua Kaufman — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:43:50 +0000

Wall Street Journal: EMI plans to sell songs without anticopying software through Apple's iTunes, marking a major strategy shift. WOO!