Earlier today Apple’s Steve Jobs announced a strategic partnership with EMI to release DRM-Free Music through it’s successful itunes electronic music distribution channel.
Too little, too late? I often wonder what would have happened if the music industry would have accepted the changing music paradigm instead of fighting it. Digital music, for all intent and purposes is a public good
That said, what if the music industry would have partnered w/ Napster instead of suing it into oblivion opting instead to charge 5 dollars a user a month for drm free, unlimited access, to music in 2000?
Would file sharing with have evolved to its current decentralized and unstoppable state if the market leader would have been legitimized through partnership? Would we have as quickly embarked on the slippery slope of rampant privacy and declining record industry revenue?
I have to say, that I could not agree with you in 100% regarding Napster, iTunes, and DRM Free Music, but it’s just my opinion, which could be wrong
1 | Daniel August 10th, 2007 at 6:01 pm