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I Am With You Dave
Yahoo! Music has been front and center on this blog this week.
So I am going to end with week by giving big kudos to Dave Goldberg, who runs Yahoo! Music.
At Music 2.0 this week in Los Angelese, Dave suggested that record labels should try selling music online without copy protection.
Of course they should. They do that offline with CDs. Why do they feel the need to sell music online with DRM?
And the main reason they should do this is that with the massive proliferation of devices, DRM is a total hassle that is pissing off the consumers and making them dislike buying music online.
I only buy music on eMusic or on CD. I won't ever buy music with DRM on it unless I can easily take it off and turn it back into a mp3.
Dave echoed this concern, saying that "rights management restrictions have created a barrier for consumers making it a hurdle to transfer music to portable devices, and creating incompatibility between music services and MP3 players", according to this cNet story.
It's about time that people who are closest to what's going on in the online music business start speaking the truth.
February 24, 2006 in My Music, Venture Capital and Technology | Permalink
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I think that is again the big problem with the music on our iPods. With Apple holding the Fairplay DRM close to their chests, it is one of the biggest proliferations of closed systems.
Just how could the MOTO RAKOR succeed when it could only play iTunes and not allow people to buy music from other places...and talk of a cell-phone not allowing off-the-air download!
Posted by: Girish Warrier | Feb 24, 2006 8:26:37 PM
Fwiw, I finally posted about this on ymusicblog.com, too.
http://ymusicblog.com/blog/2006/02/25/dave-goldberg-to-record-labels-no-drm-please/
ian
Posted by: ian c rogers | Feb 24, 2006 9:51:58 PM
Further on the moto crap music phones (SLVR and ROCKR): what brain dead idiot puts a hard limit of 100 songs on a phone? You can't expand it, and if you're a fan of punk you get 200 minutes versus 3-400 minutes if you like other music.
This when so bloody many phones already play mp3s, have no limits on them, and have expandable memory.
I love the form factor of moto phones, but everything else about moto sucks. the software sucks, the $70 for the data cd to transfer photos to your computer and sync contacts. For a phone that listed at $400 8 months ago, that's idiotic.
Just waiting for a good form factor from a decent cellphone company.
Apple is going to shoot themselves in the head again, since they think just like music people and put idiotic limits into their software and hardware.
Posted by: Hey | Feb 25, 2006 12:17:15 PM
