Free music?
Steve Jobs, oh Steve. I should have bought your stock when you came back to Apple, damn. If there is someone who knows how to market a company its Steve. So if Steve says that taking DRM (digital rights management) tags off of mp3s wont hurt the music business i believe him. See for yourself it's on Steve's own blog. In fact according to Steve, taking DRM off digitally sold songs will give the music producers a boost in profits. But i can see why a record label would be nervous about doing something like that. First of all, Steve kept on talking about how 90% of their revenue came from the sale of non DRM, hard copy CDs, and only 10% came from digital sales. Well, 10% of your entire revenue is not small. And it according to Steve, Apple is selling billions of digital songs through itunes. So why fix something thats working? There are a lot of people who dont know how to download illegal music, albeit few. Taking away the DRM would be an open invitation for the rest of the world to share digitally purchased music illegally. But, lets just assume that everyone already knows how to get music illegally. So ,why does Apple still sell billions of songs online? It could be because people just want to support their favorite artists. In fact my roommate buys every new episode of Scrubs (through itunes) because he is afraid if he doesnt they will cancel the show.. haha. Well, who knows why apple sells so much digital media. Personally i think DRM is very annoying and if they removed it i might just be inclined to buy more music online because i wouldnt have to type a password whenever i wanted to hear my purchased song. I also think that Apple giving their DRM "secrets" to other companies is rubbish, laughable really. They're just mad they suck.
posted by toddevan @ 8:42 PM
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