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Live Downloads as MP3

07 Wednesday Feb 2007

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 Live Downloads I was looking at the EFF site about DRM in music and followed their link to Live gigs you can buy in DRM free downloads (Link to nugs.net presents LIVEDOWNLOADS | Catalog of MP3 FLAC Downloads). Although a lot of the artists of predominatly of the Alt and Indie seens that is a good representation with stuff from:

  • Gomez
  • Iron & Wine
  • Barenaked Ladies
  • The Editors

To name but a few.

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NME.COM – News – Prince’s half-time show under scrutiny

07 Wednesday Feb 2007

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Things are getting a little crazy when it comes to the super bowl performances, the FCC are now looking at shadows cast by Prince (article –

Link to NME.COM – News – Prince’s half-time show under scrutiny).

 

Firstly, I’d be more concerned about the lyrics sung by an artists like Prince long before an visual element.  My real point is that legislation for the FCC and OFCOM in the UK is that they act to protect innocent minds, and would an innocent mind be looking for crude and rude images in shadows being cast?  I don’t think so as you would have to have some understanding of crude images to make the association, which means you can’t have an innocent mind.

I does make me laugh that statistics say that by the age of 18 you’ll have seen thousands of images of killing and death – yet an image that are associated with procreation and sexuality cause such a fury.

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Steve Jobs happy to drop DRM – Apple – Thoughts on Music

07 Wednesday Feb 2007

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 In a new article by Steve Jobs (Link to Apple – Thoughts on Music) he indicates he would happily say goodbye to DRM, but explains why he believes FairPlay shouldn’t be made licenable.  It is a well written article, but deliberately misses several points.

 

On the subject of lock in to a particular store, he points out on average each iPod has only 22 songs from iTunes – or 3%, and given that proportion it is hardly lock in.  Well, it is unless you’re willing to throw away £17.38 and spend the same to purchase those songs again from a different store. Not to mention that this is averaged over the owning population.  How many first generation iPods are in circulation now; how many people like me who refuse to get suckered by DRM wont load any iTunes material?  When you consider these points, then those who have purchased from iTunes probably do have a lot more to lose.

 

Further more with lock in, the problem also manifests itself in the situation of not all record companies have licensed to iTunes, particularly the smaller indie players and they may only work through a Microsoft DRM’d store, so can’t simply download you favourite obscure artist’s tracks to you iPod, or vice versa.

 

I don’t believe that Steve Jobs’ position is altruistic, but a case of it means he no longer has to carry the encoding burden, the DRM maintenance cost – which from his article is implied has the potential to be rather significant. Not to mention DRM free downloads means he has the potential to capture more download business.

 

Steve suggests the effort being spent on EU interoperability cases that have been going on in France, Belgium and other countries would better spent pressing the record companies. Yes, I’d agree with that; but as the boss of one of the biggest online stores, you’ve not been the most vocal proponent of removing DRM. Not to mention that as the biggest online vendor of music at the moment you probably have as much or more influence than many governments to persuade the ‘big four’ to try a new approach.

 

 

Tags: Apple iPod DRM Music MP3

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