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- contractcentral, on 11/12/2007, -0/+38Well that was a no-brainer.
- D4N747, on 11/11/2007, -0/+20If this doesn't get the music industry to consider scrapping DRM alltogether, I don't know what will.
- getjustin, on 11/11/2007, -1/+18Wait. You mean to tell me that when people can buy music, burn it, copy it and share it as they please (even with other people), they sell more of it in the long run? Get right outta town!!
The RIAA needs to wake the hell up. - ikamos, on 11/11/2007, -0/+15What are you talking about? DRM is awesome! I love DRM...nothing like not being able to hear a song after listening to it three times on my Zune.
- f4nt0m4s, on 11/11/2007, -0/+12What would happen if the CD you bought self-destructed after 3 spins. You know what would happen, no one would buy any music, that's what would happen.
- TheNik, on 11/12/2007, -0/+10They don't anymore.
- mikeleslie, on 11/11/2007, -0/+8That's what I would expect, although I would have thought the percentage of DRM free music to be even higher. It just makes more sense to buy music without restrictions than with them.
- inactive, on 11/11/2007, -1/+9DRM is responsible for my giant collection of downloaded music. Before that I was an avid buyer of CD's.
- TheIguana, on 11/11/2007, -0/+7I can't honestly remember the last time I actually bought a song with DRM on it. My message to Universal, Sony BMG and Warner, stop sitting on your asses and get a move on to DRM free music!
- dualscreenman, on 11/11/2007, -0/+5If overall sales are up, then I guess it doesn't really matter anyways.
- motters, on 11/11/2007, -0/+5Just to make it crystal clear to anyone in the music industry reading this - I will not buy music which has digital restrictions attached to it.
- bdbr, on 11/11/2007, -0/+4Actually, I think the world would be fine without them.
- Stonekeeper, on 11/11/2007, -0/+2Hopefully apple will realise they'll make more money if they made the itunes store a normal web site.
- walnoj, on 11/10/2007, -0/+2I love seeing stories like this on Digg, but it's not a very good article. We're talking about one UK-based music store and we all know that there are many music stores across the world that do DRM their content. They cite a sales ratio of four to one in favor of non-DRM'ed tracks, which I'm sure is a valid statistic, but they don't really elaborate on that. Are there non-DRM tracks available for songs with DRM on them that the customers are chosing over the DRM'ed counterparts? Do they cost more, or do they cost less or the same? Of the songs that they actually have available on the store, how many of them just outright do not have DRM as opposed to the songs that do not ship without DRM? That could alter the statistics by sheer brute force alone. So in that respect, this article is not very well written, nor is the claim from 7Digital, even though I try to avoid DRM tracks as if they were the plague.
That being said, there is obviously a bit of a revolt underway in terms of digital music. So many people are outright refusing to purchase digital music from any store because of the low quality of the audio on many stores and the fact that a lot of the content has DRM on it. When you think about it, actually pirating the music is a better deal than legally purchasing the music in a lot of cases. The pirates get more benefit than legitimate customers do. If the RIAA et all think that there is not a growing awareness of this, they are sadly mistaken. You can file as many lawsuits as you want under ***** information and develop all the DRM you want, but your business model is headed directly for failure, RIAA. Developing DRM is an expensive exercise in frustration, because no matter what you do, it will be cracked and it will be made worthless. People like Saul Williams, Trent Reznor, and Radiohead have the right idea here. Any artist seeking financial gain would be far better off staying as far away from the RIAA as they can, because it isn't like the RIAA has any interest in the artists that they claim to represent. So in closing (and hopefully to get a few diggs), ***** you, RIAA. - grumpyrain, on 11/13/2007, -1/+2I would be absolutely interested in this too. We all know that non DRM mp3 sales are the only possible way songs end up on p2p networks. It is absolutely impossible for someone who has a CD to rip it to a higher bit-rate then put it on [insert p2p network].
If DRM was to have a chance of kerbing piracy, they need to give up on CD releases. There is no point releasing 99% of your content on unprotected media, and expecting your efforts on 1% of online sales to actually prevent piracy. So why do they bother? Easy, DRM is not about piracy. It is about charging you multiple times for the same content. - kenvsryu, on 11/10/2007, -0/+1itunes said it wouldn't work for all these years.
- mattus, on 11/10/2007, -0/+1Surely if you intend to share it via torrent or P2P, you're not gonna pay for it in the first place?
- fkneh, on 11/11/2007, -1/+2I still won't buy music until the price comes down.
I.e. record labels stop ripping everyone off, including artists, there is no way in hell that any cd is worth more than 5 dollars at max (downloads should be way cheaper), and I mean no way. You think artists see any money from those cds/downloads? Not a ***** dime until they pay off the hundreds of thousands they owe to the big 4. Anyone who tells you to buy music is literally killing music as we know it, driving music further into corporate interests rather than, public (or even artists!) interests. There is no bottom line with music, and therefore record labels should not even exist in the state they do today.
Just my two cents, not the bible or anything. - bdbr, on 11/11/2007, -1/+2No purchased music self-destructs after 3 plays either. There's enough to hate about DRM that you should be able to do it and still make sense.
- malcam, on 11/10/2007, -0/+1Would also be nice if the download sites became more open to other platforms too, like Linux users can't access the itunes service (DRM or not).
- reed311, on 11/11/2007, -3/+3It would be interesting to see what percentage of those DRM free songs are also then shared on p2p networks or uploaded to torrent sites.
- nikitad, on 11/13/2007, -0/+0http://cddj.ru
- Langolas, on 11/11/2007, -1/+1Told ya so RIAA pigs!
- jikai55, on 11/11/2007, -8/+4Hopefully iTunes will finally realize they'll make more money if they don't charge the extra $.25 for DRM-free music.
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