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Yahoo Exec Says "Enough DRM"
bogess writes "Yahoo! Music General Manager Ian Rogers recently gave a speech to some music executives about the future of the Internet music business and promised his company will not be involved in Digital Rights Management anymore." Another straw in the wind: Nine Inch Nails has now followed Radiohead in ridding themselves of the labels and going independent.
...never can have enough DRM. really! see... you can have a mp3 for 0.99 or a value added wma with protection against EVERYTHING. even listening! how great is that?
i, for one, would prefer the newest single by britney spears in a totally unplayable format.
this is truly an interesting read.
:-( Boo!
shame I cannot get MP3 from Amazon yet as I am in the UK.
but I will be buying NIN and Radiohead albums - not only do I like the music its very important that the artist and the RIAA get the message.
though I suspect (and hope) they will be getting two very different messages.
the important thing to realize is that there will be no quick change here - the RIAA has the majority of artists by the short and curlies because they are mostly currently locked into draconian contracts for fixed duration and no. of albums. currently only the lucky few who are nearing the end of their terms (or should that be sentences) can escape to artistic and hopefully monetary freedom.
truly, we live in interesting times.
hahaha!
You crack me up. Oh wait, you're serious?
That is so far from happening its not even funny. Never mind that almost all leaks and interweb releases of films are from cinema's, pre release versions or rips from already decoded dvd's
The thing is that so few people have even the slightest inclination to rip their dvd collections that people aren't feeling the inconvenience that music users felt over the drm currently in dvds. They won't until it becomes standard to store movies etc in electronic form only. That's a long way from happening, by which time drm, unless ultra unobtrusive (ha) will be a fact of life and very hard to dislodge.
I think the Bastard Fairies are doing rather well. It's been interesting watching them grow over the last year. Though they're not exactly after the stereotypical stardom level, so i don't know if they qualify for your criteria...
-- Trinity in high heels carrying a whip: The donimatrix - there is no spoonerism
> But is there even a remote possibility for an independent artist
> to win the lottery and make it to the big time without a major label?
Yes, the Artic Monkeys have certainly done well and they have never been involved with the majors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_monkeys
Signed to a fairly big indie label now.
Amen! I'm over in the UK and I'm just waiting for Amazon or Yahoo or someone to start selling me quality downloads. I'll spend £40.00 on the service the first night it goes live, I have no doubt. I've bought a few albums from 7digital.com but a good portion of their stuff is still in WMA and they're also more set up as an online music service than a store for streaming your music wherever you are. (Everything you buy sits in an online basket that you can never get rid of and for Linux there's no convenient way of downloading your music except clicking on slow file downloads - takes fifteen minutes of clicking to get your files).
I can't wait until services are actually selling me this stuff properly.
Aide-toi, le Ciel t'aidera - Jeanne D'Arc.
It seems Oasis and Jamiroquai are to join the label free trend.
Article.
"While you're watching the quiet ones, a noisy one will fucking kill you!" - George Carlin
Even Microsoft have changed tack - the new Zune store has no DRM, and the only uses is the "squirt" function on Zunes, which I think is fair enough, frankly. It's taken long enough, and there's some way to go yet, but I think DRM is slowly but surely dying, and companies are waking up to the fact that whether or not they DRM-encumber music or not, it's an issue. On the other hand, it may just be slowly but surely replaced with digital watermarking... which isn't /quite/ so bad, but still isn't a good thing.
Even Apple have been making baby steps towards removing DRM, and I can't help but feel they helped start the whole industry trend, even if their competitors are two steps ahead of them now.
The bank charge is only if you actually want to donate an amount. If you put £0.00 it doesn't even ask for your card details.
...seems to be largely because the record labels keep it all. If a band sells a CD, the record company gets most of the money. If they sell a t-shirt, they've bought the shirt wholesale and keep the rest.
Some friends of mine were touring as the support act with a largeish (reformed '80s) band recently. The main band wasn't selling albums at the gigs, as the wholesale price the record company wanted for the CDs was too high. My friends were making quite good money, as they were unsigned so just had to pay the CD making factory.
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Under the law, it is NOT stealing. It's copyright infringement. VERY different.
Who says it's not stealing? The Supreme Court says its not stealing. DOWLING v. UNITED STATES, 473 U.S. 207: "...interference with copyright does not easily equate with theft, conversion, or fraud. The infringer of a copyright does not assume physical control over the copyright nor wholly deprive its owner of its use. Infringement implicates a more complex set of property interests than does run-of-the-mill theft, conversion, or fraud. Pp. 214-218.""
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Other than my subscription to eMusic, I pretty much only buy music direct-from-the-artist. This usually includes getting a record (on vinyl) at shows, which hopefully includes mp3 downloads that labels like Merge and Sub Pop include with their LPs. I also bought the Radiohead record (at $5) online.
I see 2 benefits to this approach:
1. (I like to think) artists get more from the sale than they would if I bought it from a shop.
2. The labels that make up the RIAA get less (if any) money from the sale. (I usually only go to shows of bands on independent labels - "safe" on the RIAA Radar).
I'm sure a lot of you know about this already, but if you want an MP3 search... skreemr.com
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