Music from Warner also without protection
In the recording industry’s latest move away from its reliance on digital locks to reduce piracy, the Warner Music Group said on Thursday that it would sell songs and albums without anticopying software through Amazon’s fledgling digital music service. The shift by Warner Music is another step in the decline of copy-protection software, which has led to consumer confusion over the jumble of incompatible schemes governing the use of digital music players and downloaded songs. Warner is the third of the four major music corporations to reconsider its use of so-called digital rights management software, known by its initials as D.R.M., and offer its catalog in the unrestricted MP3 format. Sony BMG Music Entertainment has continued to hold out, though it is expected to experiment with selling MP3s through a promotion early next year.
Warner, which releases music by artists including Josh Groban and Matchbox Twenty, was considered to be particularly reluctant to drop restrictions on copying. In February, after Apple’s chief executive, Steven P. Jobs, called on the major record companies to abandon D.R.M., Edgar Bronfman, Warner’s chairman, retorted that since movies and games carry copy protection, the notion of withdrawing it from music was “completely without logic or merit.” Warner’s move comes roughly four months after the industry’s biggest company, Universal Music Group, part of Vivendi, said it would sell music without restrictions through an array of services, including digital stores run by Wal-Mart, Real Networks and Amazon, but not iTunes. Is this the final end of D.R.M.? We all hope so…
Source: Reuters, NY Times
Comments(12)
martin ur on a roll
Could it be that the music industry is learning about how awful MS’ brain child that is called DRM? I am glad iTunes did the same thing before these guys did it.
But, you know what? I will still get mine from sites that are NOT connected some how to big corporate.
Just call me overly cautious and Not Stupid.
They finally figured out that if people are going to pay for music you can’t tell them how to use it. and if you try to they will get it somewhere else. I think they will actually increase sales by doing this.
I dunno how to post this anywhere elese but I found The Bucket List guys….can I have any credit for it or not?
Or has this already been discovered? K thax.
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bucket list = so last week. lol
DRM = DIGITAL RAPE MONEY. rofl
I thinx big money record company’s should try releasing siht that is actully worth the $29.95 retail (for cd).
A blank CD goes 4 about 15c, so how can packaging cost $29.80?
Go have a circle jerk @ record company’s
No bucket list was out before you buddy lol.I hated sonys atrac copy protection.Its copy protection like that that gets the public angry at least if you going to make copy protection make it universal for all types of players.
@5 when you buy music your paying for the right to listen to the music not just the cost of the materials to produce said music.
so you dont want to pay $29.95? then dont, but that doesnt mean you have the right to still own a copy of it. but since it easy to steal nobody cares.
are disabled, mr. x, please ignore all the haters, they are stupid, they are the losers who don’t get laid until they hire a ho, then the ho stops once she sees their peepees cause its too small, then they go ho mo for the rest of their lives because they can’t get “v” so now you see the cycle!
this trend must be contagious. whats with these guys???
@9: who cares?!
Not like DRM affected getting music anyways. Juse another regression into defeat.
how do we care piracy rocks