Making Money Selling Music Without DRM

phaedo00 writes "Ars Technica's Nate Anderson has an excellent writeup on the rise of eMusic and how they're suceeding despite their unwillingness to hop on the DRM bandwagon. From the article: 'The Holy Grail of online music sales is the ability to offer iPod-compatible tracks. Like the quest for the mythical cup itself, the search for iPod compatibility has been largely fruitless for Apple's competitors, whose DRM schemes are incompatible with the iconic music player. For a music store that wants to succeed, reaching the iPod audience is all but a necessity in the the US market, where Apple products account for 78 percent of the total players sold. Perhaps that's why eMusic CEO David Pakman sounds downright gleeful when he points out that there's only two companies in the world that can sell to them--Apple and eMusic.'"

Comments

Re:Emusic is cool but there are many great others

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

But some of us couldn't help but think, "Oh, you mean like Emusic?"

Correction, some of us couldn't help but think, "Oh, you mean like Emusic, only crippled?"

Good on him!

[zephc]

Keep chasing that shining, blinking, fruit-shaped prize, Pakman!

P.S. watch out for ghosts.

Re:Far more than two companies that sell to ipods

[pr0nbot]

All lossess or (compressed if you want that) no drm. Admittedly the selections is small, but I'd rather have a thousand stores with lossess music and no drm than one store with a large selection.

If only slashdot's submission form also used a lossless encoder...

Re:well, it is legal

[slvi]

Becasue

Bless you.

Re:Emusic is cool but there are many great others

[jabuzz]

Actually it will be photons (it's all fibre optics or satellite links) so yes they *did* cross the border :-)