Bye Bye, Digital Rights Management!

GregoryH

As you can read on Geeklock, Apple is going to sell on iTunes DRM-Free Music from beginning of May. That’s really great, all in all we are living in Information Age, it’s the high time to provide a better way to rack up music files. Legally, without any crappy solutions similar to Digital Rights Management. This is great opportunity to tell you something by the way - a few years ago I knew a mad guy that refused all sorts of digital music online. Also, he blamed MP3 format of many bands’ suppression. Can you believe that fool srsly has never downloaded any music file?

Sure thing, opinions like this one are wrong. Bands don’t suffer on MP3, in fact. You have to know how the music business works. Let’s say - bands are not making big money on music business. Record companies and record studios do it instead of them. I don’t mean mainstream artists, that makes fat cash every day, I do mean less popular bands, that make music with noncommercial spirit of “doing”. They receive money only once for signing the contract, maybe they get some ridiculous percent from selling single CDs, but that’s all. If they want to make music for their living, they’re all forced to play many live shows. There are not any other way for a music band to survive. If you must go to day work everyday in order to get money for your living, you cannot create good music, doesn’t it? Just guess that after all day spent at work you think about everything, except “creating“…

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  1. Jon Holato says:

    Is this for all the music labels that iTunes sells music for?

    My understanding was that only EMI had announced it was dropping DRM, but you might certainly know more about this than I do…

  2. Florchakh says:

    Well, only EMI had announced it, but I’m sure there will be the other ones. I know that Apple is negotiating with other labels right now ;)

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