Earlier this month EMI hinted it would be the first major music label to rid many of its songs of DRM. This isn't exactly "too good to be true", but there is a catch. EMI is willing to lose the DRM, but they demand a considerable advance payment to make it happen. Online music giants Apple and Microsoft, joined with smaller players including RealNetworks and Yahoo! Music, sought to indulge EMI's demands but the monetary offerings weren’t enough. As a result, EMI has put the talks on hold. If a "non-DRM tax" of sorts were applied to music, online retailers would have no choice but to increase the cost of downloadable music. Why exactly should DRM-free music cost more? More importantly, would the majority of users pay more to get DRM-free content?
News source: Ars Technica
News source: Ars Technica
cause theres no way i would buy mp3's that are DRM "AND" cost damn near the price of the real cd... i would just go out and buy the real cd and then rip the cd to MP3's myself
say a cd costs like 15 dollars... i would have to pretty much get the FULL mp3 CD for no more than half that TOPS or otherwise i would rather just buy the real cd and rip it to mp3's myself.
It would've been great to just ditch them though :p
They seem to be trying to make either us or the online stores pay more for what we already had with CD's.
EMI you as dumb as they come. This has really annoyed me and i havent ever brought any music online. Why should we pay for DSRM to be removed when basically it shouldnt of been put into the music industry in the first place.
"non-DRM tax" is this some kind of a joke?
EMI you as dumb as they come. This has really annoyed me and i havent ever brought any music online. Why should we pay for DSRM to be removed when basically it shouldnt of been put into the music industry in the first place.
"non-DRM tax" is this some kind of a joke?
oh well, in belgium we already pay a tax on blank cd's and dvd's because they might be used for copyright infringement. sucks big time
Same in Germany, it's really freaky.
Same in Germany, it's really freaky.
yea, but it doesnt give you the right to put "illegal" media on it tho, which I think is a rip-off...
why should we pay more for DRM-free music? it doesnt matter whether 100 or 1million people are able to spread it using purchased DRM-free music. in the end its in the net anyways, even without drm-free music at all, so kiss my a**
this is ridiculous
Glassed Silver:mac
(generalising, ignoring things like marketing etc)
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