EMI unlocks music downloads

[Don Pearce]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6516189.stm

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[hank alrich]

Don Pearce wrote:

> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6516189.stm

It will be interesting to see if the mass market finds this appealing
enough to pay the thirty-cents extra for unlocked material. I'm glad to
see them trying this, even though I have never bought a tune online.

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ha
Iraq is Arabic for Vietnam

[Scott Fraser]

<<Apple boss Steve Jobs shared the platform with Mr Nicoli and said:
"This is the next big step forward in the digital music revolution -
the movement to completely interoperable DRM-free music."

I disagree with Mr. Jobs. I'd say the next big step is to make music
downloads available without any sort of lossy data reduction schemes.

Scott Fraser

[hank alrich]

Scott Fraser wrote:

> <<Apple boss Steve Jobs shared the platform with Mr Nicoli and said:
> "This is the next big step forward in the digital music revolution -
> the movement to completely interoperable DRM-free music."
>
> I disagree with Mr. Jobs. I'd say the next big step is to make music
> downloads available without any sort of lossy data reduction schemes.

What? And not be able to put thousands of songs on your iPod?? What are
you thinking?

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ha
Iraq is Arabic for Vietnam

[Michael Wozniak]

"hank alrich" > wrote in message
...
> Scott Fraser wrote:
>
>> <<Apple boss Steve Jobs shared the platform with Mr Nicoli and said:
>> "This is the next big step forward in the digital music revolution -
>> the movement to completely interoperable DRM-free music."
>>
>> I disagree with Mr. Jobs. I'd say the next big step is to make music
>> downloads available without any sort of lossy data reduction schemes.
>
> What? And not be able to put thousands of songs on your iPod?? What are
> you thinking?

Ummmm, thinking of quality, maybe? No, wait, that was LAST century when
consumers desired quality.... :)

I haven't seen the link, but if "DRM-free" means "not copy protected", then
I think it's possible that the **** will hit the napster-like fan again...
what's to stop it?

Mikey
Nova Music Productions

[HKC]

I haven't seen the link, but if "DRM-free" means "not copy protected", then
I think it's possible that the **** will hit the napster-like fan again...
what's to stop it?

You could also get rid of the code before by burning it to a red book CD and
converting it back again. I buy many songs on iTunes whenever I need
something for rehearsing and I use this way to get it to play on my MP3
player.

[Laurence Payne]

On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 06:33:36 GMT, "Michael Wozniak"
> wrote:

>I haven't seen the link, but if "DRM-free" means "not copy protected", then
>I think it's possible that the **** will hit the napster-like fan again...
>what's to stop it?

What's the difference? File-sharing has never gone away. Maybe not
neatly packaged and promoted like Napster. But it's easy enough to
find most anything you want on publicly-available free networks.

[Bigguy]

Michael Wozniak wrote:
>
> then I think it's possible that the **** will hit the
> napster-like fan again... what's to stop it?
>
> Mikey
> Nova Music Productions

You don't get out and about much do you? ;-)

Napster was just one of many P2P programs... most of the the others are very
much alive and kicking...

See:

Azureus
uTorrent
BitTorrent
BitLord
Limewire
Shareaza
Morpheus
Zultrax
eMule
Ares
BearShare
Soulseek

I'm sure there are others too.

Guy

[Scott Fraser]

> What? And not be able to put thousands of songs on your iPod?? What are
> you thinking?>>

Hank, you saying there are thousands of songs worth listening to?

Scott Fraser

[Tom[_3_]]

> I disagree with Mr. Jobs. I'd say the next big step is to make music
> downloads available without any sort of lossy data reduction schemes.
>
> Scott Fraser

Well, the cool thing is that these no-DRM files are encoded at 256
kbps, the double of the normal iTunes songs.
So, yes, it is still lossy but it should sound half decent on most
people's stereos.
Also interestingly, in an effort to improve album sales on itunes, the
price of the full album will still be $9.99 even if it is a no-DRM
version.
And finally, it's nice that you will be able to upgrade your EMI songs
for the $0.30 price difference. I don't know which of my songs are by
EMI artists, but I will certainly do that.

cheers,

Tom