Music Companies Mull Ditching DRM

Posted by Zonk on Monday January 22, 2007 @05:20AM from the dogs-and-cats-living-together-mass-hysteria dept.

PoliTech writes to mention an International Herald Tribue article that is reporting the unthinkable: Record companies are considering ditching DRM for their mp3 albums. For the first time, flagging sales of online music tracks are beginning to make the big recording companies consider the wisdom of selling music without 'rights management' technologies attached. The article notes that this is a step the recording industry vowed 'never to take'. From the article: "Most independent record labels already sell tracks digitally compressed in MP3 format, which can be downloaded, e-mailed or copied to computers, cellphones, portable music players and compact discs without limit. Partially, the independents see providing songs in MP3 as a way of generating publicity that could lead to future sales. Should one of the big four take that route, however, it would be a capitulation to the power of the Internet, which has destroyed their monopoly over the worldwide distribution of music in the past decade and allowed file-sharing to take its place."

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Re:Undermining Apple? by Jaknet · 2007-01-22 08:41 · Score: 0, Offtopic

shakestheclown
Really wish I had mod points today you deserve them for that.

The only real problem is the fanboys out there will read your comments and just assume that you're a microsoft fanboy because you have the "cheek" to say anything against the "mighty" apple.

Thank you again for the breath of fresh air and reason here.

p.s. this is slashdot are you sure you're on the right site (-;