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| Mel Belli |
What does this mean? How were the DRM restrictions referred to below any different than the ones from other record labels?
Associated Press Online
April 2, 2007 Monday 2:15 PM GMT
EMI, Apple to Sell Songs Online
EMI Group PLC on Monday announced a deal that will allow computer company Apple Inc. to sell the record company's songs online without copy protection software.
The agreement means that customers of Apple's iTunes store will soon be able to play downloaded songs by the Rolling Stones, Norah Jones, Coldplay and other top-selling artists without the copying restrictions once imposed by their label.
EMI said almost all of its catalog, excluding music by The Beatles, is included in the deal.
Singles and albums free from copy-protection software and with a higher sound quality will be offered as a premium product, the companies announced at a London news conference.
Consumers will pay a higher price for the premium singles, but the same price for albums either with or without the copy protection software.
The announcement follows calls by Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs earlier this year for the world's four major record companies, including EMI, to start selling songs online without copy-protection software.
The software, known as DRM, is designed to combat piracy by preventing unauthorized copying, but can make downloading music difficult for consumers.
The software used by Apple does not work with competing services or devices, meaning that consumers can only download songs from iTunes to iPod music players. The linkages between the download services and players has drawn criticism from European industry regulators, who argue that it limits buyer choice.
Jobs argued there was little benefit to record companies selling more than 90 percent of their music without DRM on compact discs, then selling the remaining percentage online with DRM.
Some analysts suggest that lifting the software restrictions could boost sales of online music, which currently account for around 10 percent of global music sales.
EMI has acted as the distributor for The Beatles since the early 1960s, but The Beatles' music holding company, Apple Corps Ltd., has so far declined to allow the Fab Four's music on any Internet music services including iTunes.
The situation was exacerbated by a long-running trademark dispute between Apple Inc. and Apple Corps. That legal feud was resolved in February when the two companies agreed on joint use of the apple logo and name, a deal many saw as paving the way for an agreement for online access to the Fab Four's songs.
Apple Corps was founded by the Fab Four in 1968 and is still owned by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, the widow of John Lennon and the estate of George Harrison.
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| Joey |
Thanks Mel .
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| gimmekeef |
Didnt this train leave the station a while back?...So now they figure I'll pay more ($1.25?) for a song I likely have already on a cd anyway?......Remind me to sell this stock short....... |
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| glencar |
What a waste of time! |
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| Mel Belli |
There must be some news in there; the AP writer just isn't reporting it very clearly. |
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| gimmekeef |
Unless some of these so called premium tunes are unreleased I cant see how it makes any sense....Hell theres software now that removes the copy protection (see Sound Taxi for instance) |
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| chevysales |
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17902329/
EMI, Apple offer protection-free downloads
Almost whole catalog, excluding music by The Beatles, is included
Apple, EMI to offer protection-free downloads
April 2: Apple teams with EMI to sell songs online without restrictions on sharing. CNBC's technology reporter, Jim Goldman, reports.
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Updated: 10:51 a.m. ET April 2, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO - EMI Group PLC on Monday announced a deal that will allow computer company Apple Inc. to sell the record company's songs online without copy protection software.
The agreement means that customers of Apple's iTunes store will soon be able to play downloaded songs by the Rolling Stones, Norah Jones, Coldplay and other top-selling artists without the copying restrictions once imposed by their label.
EMI said almost all of its catalog, excluding music by The Beatles, is included in the deal.
Singles and albums free from copy-protection software and with a higher sound quality will be offered as a premium product, the companies announced at a London news conference.
Consumers will pay a higher price for the premium singles, but the same price for albums either with or without the copy protection software.
The announcement follows calls by Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs earlier this year for the world's four major record companies, including EMI, to start selling songs online without copy-protection software.
The software, known as DRM, is designed to combat piracy by preventing unauthorized copying, but can make downloading music difficult for consumers.
The software used by Apple does not work with competing services or devices, meaning that consumers can only download songs from iTunes to iPod music players. The linkages between the download services and players has drawn criticism from European industry regulators, who argue that it limits buyer choice.
Jobs argued there was little benefit to record companies selling more than 90 percent of their music without DRM on compact discs, then selling the remaining percentage online with DRM.
Some analysts suggest that lifting the software restrictions could boost sales of online music, which currently account for around 10 percent of global music sales.
EMI has acted as the distributor for The Beatles since the early 1960s, but The Beatles' music holding company, Apple Corps Ltd., has so far declined to allow the Fab Four's music on any Internet music services including iTunes.
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The situation was exacerbated by a long-running trademark dispute between Apple Inc. and Apple Corps. That legal feud was resolved in February when the two companies agreed on joint use of the apple logo and name, a deal many saw as paving the way for an agreement for online access to the Fab Four's songs.
Apple Corps was founded by the Fab Four in 1968 and is still owned by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, the widow of John Lennon and the estate of George Harrison.
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| gimmekeef |
If you want Beatles including boots here is a secure pay site where whole albums download for average $2.50+ and songs at 19 cents ea...It works and is secure...:
http://www.gomusic.ru/artist.aspx?id=97
[Edited by gimmekeef] |
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| Mel Belli |
All right, I got it now: So you'll able to buy Norah Jones, etc. on iTunes and play it on a non-Apple MP3 player? Are other labels expected to follow? |
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| gimmekeef |
This smells...watch for a price drop soon on Ipods..then a new version with some form of higher song quality...once again only playable on an I pod.....Apple wont give this edge up.... |
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| Mel Belli |
quote:
gimmekeef wrote:
This smells...watch for a price drop soon on Ipods..then a new version with some form of higher song quality...once again only playable on an I pod.....Apple wont give this edge up....
I'm all for anti-Apple paranoia, but I think it's within the realm of possibility that Steve Jobs wasn't lying when he said labels wouldn't license their music to Apple without DRM. |
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| chevysales |
i pay for no music via the internet... i do buy cd's once in a while... last one i bought i got rripped off on and it was the stones last release...
back to downloads... longing for the days of winMX... |
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| Rodney_King |
in the hood, we get our music for .15 a track.
www.gomusic.ru |
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| gimmekeef |
quote:
Rodney_King wrote:
in the hood, we get our music for .15 a track.
www.gomusic.ru
Yes...although they charge 19 cents for Beatles....At that rate Stones should be 89 cents! |
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| fireontheplatter |
burnt cds are the way for me. |
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