arstechnica.com — EMI's senior VP Lauren Berkowitz reports that sales of the label's digital music sales have seen a spike in sales after going DRM-free through iTunes a few weeks ago. If EMI can maintain that increase in sales, the other major labels may follow sooner than later.
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dakkon2399Jun 21, 2007
@DIGGerPhelpsNDOh, someone said something negative about an apple product, quick they must be an apple hater. Wait, I see how this works, ... you made a quick judgment about someone based on one statement, so you must be just another idiot. See, it really is easy to label someone with no thought.I seriously wonder about some fanatical brand followers. Yeah that's right, dig me down all you apple fan boys. Really though, a diverse market is a healthy market, and fanatical devotion to one product (even if it's a good one) doesn't help anyone. I personally haven't used ITunes so I have no feelings either way about that particular product.
fuzzmeisterJun 21, 2007
You don't like Pink Floyd? Is that possible?
codmateJun 21, 2007
Becuase the music is compressed with a lossy codec.
wiseweaselJun 21, 2007
Who doesn't own all of Pink Floyd by now?
jayfehrJun 21, 2007
@HitMeWithItAlthough I agree with you in theory, Apple Records is actually in the process of Re-Mastering the entire Beatles catalogue for online distribution. I heard on the radio (so no link sorry) that they even fired the guy in charge because he was taking to long. But if you replace Beatles with Zeppelin in your post I'll agree completely.
straxusJun 21, 2007
Yep. And speaking of "no s**t" moments, where are all of our little astroturfing friends who insisted DRM-free music would flop? I very distinctly remember being told that all people who complained about DRM were really interested in was free music, and that we'd all continue to pirate even after we got what we asked for. I looked all over this page, and I can't seem to find any of them... Hopefully, at least one of them will read this thread and see this: Nyah Nyah, told you so!
kaplanfxJun 22, 2007
The problem with a lossy format is that in 5 years when I better higher quality compressed format comes out you will need to transcode which will result in further loss of quality. If you have a lossless copy somewhere, you can re-compress with a newer lossy codec and not suffer the "copy of a copy" problem.-kap
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