A little more cheese for a little less trap?
Monday, April 02 2007
Good news on the digital music front! According to an article at News.com, EMI and Apple are going to offer digital music at a higher bit-rate (256 kbps) without DRM through iTunes! The catch [because you knew there would be one] is that a song will cost $1.29 (US) instead of $.99.
This is great news! I would gladly pay 30% more for the removal of the consumer-crippling software known as digital rights management from my music files. Then I buy the song and own it for use on my laptop, desktop, home PC, car stereo, mp3 player or any other device that I might buy in the future. Not only that, but I can back it up to DVD/CD without any conflict of interest or worrying about stupid lawsuits. In my opinion, the higher bit-rate is a perk...the real story is paying a little more money to remove the DRM trap.
I hope the rest of the music industry follows suit and this becomes a de-facto standard for digital music.
~tod
5 comment(s)
Yup, this is good news. Frankly, I'm surpised Jobs agreed to this. He must feel pretty confident in the Ipod/Itunes monopoly.:)
David- Ha! He probably does feel comfortable in his position, but I still think it's a good move overall for the industry.