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Yahoo Exec Speaks Against DRM

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pinch-me dept.

AWhiteFlame writes "Dave Goldberg of Yahoo spoke against DRM on media files last Thursday at the Music 2.0 conference in Los Angeles. From the article: 'According to attendees, Goldberg pointed to the experience of eMusic, which offers its subscribers access to MP3 files without any digital rights management attached. Rights management restrictions have created a barrier for consumers, he said, making it a hurdle to transfer music to portable devices, and creating incompatibility between music services and MP3 players ... A Yahoo spokeswoman said that Goldberg was 'basically trying to move the industry forward,' and wanted to prompt industry-wide discussion about what the consumer experience is."

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  1. Re:Interesting.. by apocal · · Score: 3, Insightful

    this is probably not by choice but what the industry demands. Yahoo doesn't like it, and is trying to open discussion for change perhaps?

  2. Only way I'll get downloaded music by CastrTroy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The only way I'll pay for downloaded music is if its lossless (wav,flac) and if it costs significantly less than the CD. If the artist only has 1 good song they aren't worth giving any money to. If they can produce an album where I like at least half the songs, and don't hate the rest, then I will buy the music. If the download doesn't cost less than half of what the CD costs, then I don't see where I am getting a better deal.

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    1. Re:Only way I'll get downloaded music by kidcharles · · Score: 2, Insightful

      You outlined my own thoughts on the issue almost perfectly. $0.99 a song can be more than the cost of a CD depending on the number of songs on the CD. And it's compressed at an inadequate 128kbs. And I'd have to deal with the DRM garbage. Sorry Apple, I ain't buyin' it.

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  3. Re:Interesting.. by LetterRip · · Score: 2, Insightful

    [QUOTE]...considering Yahoo's music service uses a propretary media player (Yahoo's) with a propretary DRM implementation (Microsoft's) on the subscription model where your music is all deleted when you cancel your subscription... by DRM.[/QUOTE]

    Not really when you translate what he says to [QUOTE]Our DRM is incompatible with the iPod which really sucks for us[/QUOTE], it makes perfect sense :)

  4. lossless encoding whiners by davido42 · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Pardon the troll subject line, but I think lossless encoding is way overrated. MP3 and AAC are fine standards, but the "powers" have decided we don't deserve decent bitrates.

    What I decided to do was to offer MP3's at around 260-270 kbps. If you can tell the difference between that and lossless, .. you should be an audio compression engineer.

    david

    BTW, have you bought my compilation yet? It'll cost ya 1 lousy buck.
    http://www.bitworksmusic.com/
    odd tunes for odd times

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