I wonder if Singleton would consider eMusic marginal? Probably, though 12% of the U.S. market seems pretty major to me.
I just did a quick survey, and 7 out of the last 10 "albums" I downloaded off iTunes are available at eMusic. I could have saved 50 bucks AND saved myself the hassle of removing Apple's DRM crud. Methinks Apple will be getting less of my entertainment dollar going forward...
dmarti
· 3 years ago
Pakman is off by one -- Magnatune also sells DRM-free music online, and you get the choice of MP3, Ogg Vorbis, or FLAC.
Rob Hyndman
· 3 years ago
Tim - what strikes me as interesting is the idea of the eMusics of the world turning the traditional scattershot model of the big labels on its head by forgoing DRM and turning instead to the long tail. The majors think they need DRM to protect the one hit that surfaces and pays for all the 'losers'. The eMusic model is instead to increase the return on all the smaller acts. UnDRM is beginning to look like a viable competitive threat to the BigMusic model.
mlinksva
· 3 years ago
Don Marti, he's off by a large number. There are many DRM-free music stores, not counting many labels and artists selling only their music DRM free.
Technically Pakman's comment should be qualified with "having non-neglible market share" or similar, but this does not detract at all from his point.
GBGames
· 3 years ago
****WHY are there no investors flocking to develop high-quality content that is not protected by DRM? IF there is another way, this is a HUGE opportunity for someone to make a lot of money. WHERE are the new business models? Grokster is just a distribution technology, it doesn't PRODUCE content.
How is one supposed to tie music or movies to services if anyone with a digital editor can untie them and post the untied content!!!!! ****
That was from Solveig Singleton on May 15th in a comment on a previous TL post. So besides asking audiolunchbox (which offers ogg as well as mp3), I guess the query can be posed to all of the compaines listed above, too. B-)
Robert Feisee
· 3 years ago
so does this mean that emusic is a substitute for itunes or am i way off?
Froppo
· 3 years ago
I'm glad that there are some companies in the world that have realized treating customers like criminals equal decreased sales. I put a post on a BMI hosted forum to stir the pot a little bit. Basically in my post I stated, "isn't it ironic that an industry bent on ripping people off immediately came to the conclusion that everyone was trying to rip them off?". As you can imagine I got quite the response. Most of the respondents cowered to name calling and telling me I was worthless because I was an intern. Others ripped on the fact that I was a college student and concluded that because of this I must not be very intelligent. Funny all of them avoided the issue at hand. None of them gave me facts or evidence to the contrary of what I was saying.
Needless to say I think I'll be using eMusic from now on. The major label record industry obviously does not need sales from ignorant college students or, God forbid, ignorant college interns.
pauljs75
· 3 years ago
If this was dealing with CDs instead of online content, TweakUI and winLAME used in combination might yield a ridiculously simple solution.
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I just did a quick survey, and 7 out of the last 10 "albums" I downloaded off iTunes are available at eMusic. I could have saved 50 bucks AND saved myself the hassle of removing Apple's DRM crud. Methinks Apple will be getting less of my entertainment dollar going forward...
Technically Pakman's comment should be qualified with "having non-neglible market share" or similar, but this does not detract at all from his point.
How is one supposed to tie music or movies to services if anyone with a digital editor can untie them and post the untied content!!!!! ****
That was from Solveig Singleton on May 15th in a comment on a previous TL post. So besides asking audiolunchbox (which offers ogg as well as mp3), I guess the query can be posed to all of the compaines listed above, too. B-)
Needless to say I think I'll be using eMusic from now on. The major label record industry obviously does not need sales from ignorant college students or, God forbid, ignorant college interns.