iTunes made a killing when the old-guard was saying file traders would make online music unprofitable. I’m hoping this proves right again and EMI makes a killing off of this.
My personal plea to any file traders: Please, please, please do not trade any DRM-free songs you buy from iTunes. You’ll only be hurting yourself and the rest of us. If EMI sees sales surge then DRM — and all the industry (il)logic behind it — will be dealt a serious blow.
Yeah. That'll do it!
Now, could you ask Hillary
to drop from the race?
I am a subscriber to eMusic.com which gives me 30 DRM-free tracks per month. I've even gotten some of the booster packs. Lots of great independent music waiting to be discovered on eMusic.com. Explosions In The Sky, Of Montreal, Neutral Milk Hotel, Joanna Newsom, etc.
But when iTunes begins offering DRM-free tunes, I pledge to spend at least ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS over the next year buying up these tunes. If just 100 million Americans pledge to do the same, that will be $100 BILLION in iTunes sales over the next year. This would bury the RIAA and utterly destroy DRM. That would be cool.