EMI — Ditching DRM is Going To Cost You

33rpm writes "EMI has told online music stores that selling its catalog without DRM is going to cost them a lot of money. 'EMI is the only major record label to seriously consider abandoning the disaster that is DRM, but earlier reports that focused on the company's reformist attitude apparently missed the mark: EMI is willing to lose the DRM, but they demand a considerable advance payment to make it happen. EMI has backed out of talks for now because no one will pay what they're asking.'"

Comments

Oh well

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't care, I'll just carry on downloading music from emule and torrents. Music should be free anyway.

Re:Oh well

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe we should drill out our fucking eardrums then so we won't hear "free" music when cars go by with open windows.

What else is up your sleeve music nazi? How about we put DRM on all musical instruments. Maybe we should do pay for play when you hit a piano key.

Fuck you, music should be free!!!!

Re:How does it cost more money to go non-DRM?

[pyite]

It's actually grounds for a mass slander / libel lawsuit.
If they are doing this under the "assumption" that all of us will infringe, and at least one of us doesn't - boom - instant suit.

Hi, welcome to Canada's recordable media tax. Oh, and the Universal/Microsoft deal over the Zune. Why are you throwing out random ideas with no legal basis? Oh, this is slashdot; sorry, I forgot.