How much is you freedom worth?
This blog comes from Free Culture Blog dated April 2, 2007 by Asheesh Laroia, via a Public Knowledge blog post that Apple is going to sell music from a major label in a non Digital Rights Management (DRM) format. DRM is the software that restricts what your computer will let you do with music you typically pay for. For example DRM on iTunes Music Store prevents synchronizing full quality files to portable music players other than iPod.
Consumers pay about $0.99 for a DRM song or $1.29 for a non DRM song.
During the four years of iPod & iTunes Music Store it was thought that Apple had built its empire on the lock-in between the music store and the portable player.
Microsoft had a similar connection with Universal, a major label, through Zune, Microsoft’s portable music player. However Microsoft pays Universal $1.00 per Zune. (Similar to Tune)
Everyone is making money at the consumers expense. Where is the freedom and how much is it worth?
Posted in Commentary,DRM / 4 Comments>>
peace, Bennie
April 22nd, 2007 at 10:35 pm
The music companies, the atrists and the music stores, all want to make a lot of money like they used to in the past before the digital remediation. Digital rights format (DRM) is their latest attempt to control the income from the property — but the internet (which is the major element for the piracy problem) is now being used by the industry to fix the problem.
I think the artist should not be dependent on the music company fpr distribution anymore.