EMI Exec Says 'The Music CD is Dead'

Anonycat writes "Alain Levy, the chairman of EMI Music, made a speech at the London Business School declaring 'the end of the music CD as it is.' He went on to say that most CDs are simply used for ripping onto digital audio players. Levy adds that by the beginning of 2007, all EMI CDs will come with additional material to make them more attractive to the consumer. Revenue from CDs still outranks revenue from downloads by better than 6 to 1. Would it take 'additional material' to get you to keep buying CDs? What material would you like to see?"

Comments

I'd like to see a talking goat

[Gizzmonic]

Now that would be pretty cool.

full-frontal nudity

[the_wesman]

What material would you like to see?

you asked.
-w

OTOH..

[davido42]

I have the opposite question: what could CD's achieve that cannot be downloaded? Scratch-n-sniff?

Prediction: DRM will be dead too in 5 years.

http://www.bitworksmusic.com/
P.S. Download my music.. for free.

Re:Easy Sony

[vmardian]

I think you mean viruses.

Re:Rather have leprosy

[jenkin sear]

I did, which is why I didn't say it was an EMI CD. The point (which you are apparently not able to grasp, so I'll spell it out for ya) is that every time somebody bundles extra stuff on a CD or a DVD, it seems to come with it's own player that phones home, it's own executables, it's own spyware, and (in Sony / BMG / Colombia's case) an actual rootkit. There's no altruism here.

Maybe you need to stop jumping to conclusions and actually read the comments before calling people names?

Re:Rather have leprosy

[jb.hl.com]

Your comment did not say "player that phones home, with spyware, rootkits and executables", your comment said "rootkit". This is a discussion about an EMI statement, not a Sony/BMG/Columbia statement.

Maybe you ought to make your comments less vague.

Re:Rather have leprosy

[geekoid]

Your being intentionally obtuse. Stop it. It doesn't help.