Negative Space: content industry
- Apple asks music companies to drop digital restrictions
- “Imagine there’s no DRM, it isn’t hard to do.” Steve Jobs goes public saying that Apple prefers that there not be any artificial restrictions added to music that customers purchase.
- Apple encourages MP3 distribution?
- Apple’s steadfast refusal to either license their own digital restriction mechanism or program other restriction mechanisms into the iPod may be encouraging labels to switch to unrestricted sales.
- Apple’s new Music Store ringtone policy
- I had started to consider purchasing digital downloads instead of CDs, but because download restrictions change too easily CDs remain a far better choice for me.
- Does iPod exist for music, or does music exist for the iPod?
- For Warner Music Group, it appears that music is just a promotional item for iPods. CEO Edgar Bronfman considers music less important than the playback device used to listen to it.
- Face the Music
- MP3s are not the cause of the recording industry’s decline, they are the reason the recording industry remains afloat. The more successful the industry is in blocking open audio formats, the more the industry will decline in the long-term.
- Google Video’s DRM is a disservice to Google’s users
- Google has a history of doing things right for their users even under pressure to restrict their users. Now that’s changing.
- iPod repeating same mistakes as Macintosh?
- Real wants to focus attention in the Harmony/iPod debate solely on the iTunes Music Store. But the iPod is about far more than the iTMS.
- Listening to music a privilege, not a right
- Music executive comes out and says that listening to music on your computer is an extra privilege, and you should just buy a regular CD player.
- The music industry vs. itself
- Yet again, music industry executives are complaining that Apple, by making the iPod easy to use and by complying with the industry’s demand for restricting music, is standing in the way of progress.
- Napster on owning music vs. renting music
- Napster president Brad Duea says that owning music isn’t the point, we should just be happy for the experience of being around music.
- Rip, Mix, Pay
- Apple has saved me $400. I’ll be renewing my Sprint contract for a year when it expires next month.
