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New Online Music Push by EMI

Posted by timothy on from the joining-em-after-failure-to-beat dept.

akadruid writes "EMI has signed deals with 20 top European websites to sell its music online. According to Reuters, 'Consumers will be able to make permanent copies of songs and transfer them to recordable CDs, portable music players and their computer hard drives'. This represents a major shift in policy by EMI, who previously went to great lengths to protect their music from copying. Does this mark the beginning of a major change in the music industry?"

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  1. Re:Objectivity is journalism makes me happy by Darth+Troll · · Score: 4, Funny
    have brought the music industry to its knees
    Yes, the music industry is on their knees but what they're doing down there is reaming the consumers' (and artists') cornholes.
  2. No! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    An EMI representative has just released this statement: "Whoops, our bad. That was really a joke e-mail, you know, one of those 'this will never happen because it's so ha-ha funny' emails. No, we still embrace the 'you are thieves, not customers' philosophy."

  3. Re:not MP3's.. by $carab · · Score: 4, Funny

    Have you ever bought a MS O/S?

    Wait...you mean like....purchase something digital?

    Fuck that. Gimme Kazaa Lite and IRC any day.