Will DRM Die Today?
by Volker Weber
The Wall Street Journal reports that EMI will announce today that a significant portion of EMI’s catalog will be sold online without any DRM. EMI is the third largest music label after Universal and Sony.
Michael Arrington of TechCrunch comments:
If EMI does in fact announce that they will sell music without DRM, Jobs is going to get most or all of the credit. If sales increase, expect the other three big music labels to join as well. And April 2, 2007 will be a day music fans remember forever.
Repeat after me: DRM is bad for the customer
Tags: DRM+is+bad+for+the+customer
Comments
Wow! That would definitely be a day to remember.
Let's see how they measure "significant portion".
And let's see if they will charge us with an additional in order to get uncrippled music. :-)
Insert a 'fee' somewhere above... :-/
"Will DRM die today?"
No.
We may get non-crippled music, but we'll still have crippled films and we'll still have Vista with protection for "premium content" at its core.
Actually yes: The dying has started DRM Free Download
However I will never spend 1,29 Euro (probably they'll calculate 1:1) on ONE song. Luckily there's still ebay where you can buy codes and end up at about 25 Cent per song - that's mor than fair. I would spend up to 50 Cent, but that's my personal limit for a song even withourt DRM an with better encoding.
Sehr schön, das macht schon mal Freude. =)
Ein paar Wehmutstropfen hat das ganze allerdings: DRM songs sind weiterhin billiger - und die DRM-freien Songs im iTunes Music Store werden nur im AAC Format angeboten, ich möchte aber gerne MP3. Fazit: ich werde also auch in Zukunft mich mit dem Brennen von CDs abmühen.
Philipp, nicht per DRM "geschützte" AAC-Dateien sollten sich auch in iTunes problemlos in MP3 konvertieren lassen. Ohne den Umweg über eine CD.
Aber nur, wenn ich die Einstellungen im iTunes so setze, dass ich eine mp3 CD brennen will, oder nicht?
Nein, das stellt man auf dem Import-Tab ein. Dort einfach MP3 mit der gewünschten Bitrate angeben. Danach kannst Du in iTunes die AAC Tracks auswählen und dann geht das mit "Advanced/Convert Selection to MP3".
Allerdings ist AAC durchaus kein schlechtes Format. Das ist nicht etwa was Apple-eigenes sondern im Rahmen von MPEG standardisiert. Der Sonos spielt die zum Beispiel ab und viele mobile Player auch.
Herzlichen Dank für die Auskunft. =)
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