Comments on: Another turnaround: Microsoft wants DRM-free music

By: butlimous

butlimous — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:40:28 +0000

lol

By: Mr. X

Mr. X — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 02:12:26 +0000

Why cant they just do scene standards for mp3s then sell them as legit ? It would be better for everyone.

By: MellowHexagon

MellowHexagon — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 21:40:13 +0000

Funny how they can make removing DRM and charging more for it sound like they are doing us a favour…

By: free ps3

free ps3 — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 16:01:18 +0000

Now the other 3 major labels need to give in and it will all be drm-free

By: Orion

Orion — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 15:34:37 +0000

lol

By: tumbler

tumbler — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 14:55:04 +0000

@MellowHexagon

You are correct.

Even the iTunes selling DRM-free music involves an INCREASE in prices!

If they want to strip DRM from music and charge HIGHER prices than DRM’ed music, fine…

To counter that, we should form large groups that buy 1 DRM-free song each. We then share them like crazy!

End result? They only get money from the 1 song that was bought. That’s it.

Then again, why the heck would you pay more for a single when you can buy the whole album and rip/share that?

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By: MellowHexagon

MellowHexagon — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:56:17 +0000

While i’m happy to see that the industry is in the early stages of changing it’s ways, I can’t help but see this as a hollow victory. These companies are still assholes and the only reason they are removing DRM is they think they can make a bit more money this way. I’m pretty sure that Steve Jobbs and bill gates would be more than happy churning out DRM protected bullshit if it made them money as much money.

I’ll still use bittorrent and i’ll still buy CD’s. Nothing has changed really =p

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:24:39 +0000

im also waiting for the new ubuntu 7.04

nice free OS

By: wickido

wickido — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:04:02 +0000

Make that 3.11, old school mofo, yeheas! Fat the whuck!

By: Dylan Avery

Dylan Avery — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 12:53:02 +0000

Hahaha, Ubuntu sucks ass!

Windows 3.1 ftw!

By: Mc

Mc — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 10:48:33 +0000

iTunes would sell individual EMI tracks, with their DRM removed, at twice the sound quality of existing downloads for $1.29.
Yeah right, 256 KBps is exactly twice as good as 128 KBps! Sure! But ofcourse some consumers are going to fall for this argument.

It might be a step in the right direction for the music industry, but it’s only a small one. As long as their competition (p2p / former customers) is still innovating faster they’re not gonna catch up any time soon.

By: nordfront

nordfront — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 10:31:07 +0000

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By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 10:28:25 +0000

Wow oO way to make a post that has nothing to do with the content of the article.

By: oO

oO — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 10:13:21 +0000

M$ must die, Windows must die. Chose and use alternative operating systems like commercial MacOS X and free Linux distros (like Ubuntu).

Regards