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It's Official! Apple's iTunes Drops DRM, Adds Variable Pricing
UPDATED: From today's Macworld address: Three pricing tiers: $0.99 cents, $0.69 cents, and $1.29. “Depending on how the music labels offer music, Apple will price accordingly." Starts n April. Most albums will still be priced at $9.99. iTunes Plus: Plays on as many computers as you own. Now at 256 kbps AAC encoding Free 1 click ...
New iTunes is DRM Free but It's Still Restricted
As Ben Drury of UK download provider 7Digital said in statement today: “Downloads from iTunes are still in the AAC file format regardless of whether they are DRM-free." 7digital, Amazon, Napster, Zune, Rhapsody and all other DRM free retialers sell all downloads in the universal MP3 format which means they work on any iPod, any brand ...
Analysis: Apple Finally Kills DRM
At Apple's final keynote address to the Macworld faithful today, the company made an announcement that should change the way music is purchased from now on—roll it back to the old, better way, I mean. Apple will no longer put DRM code on its iTunes music files. DRM, shorthand for Digital Rights Management, is the “protection" ...
Apple Cuts Copy Protection and Prices on iTunes
From http://tech.yahoo.com/news: Apple cuts copy protection and prices on iTunes (AP) Posted on Tue Jan 6, 2009 2:25PM EST SAN FRANCISCO - Apple Inc. closed its final appearance at the Macworld trade show Tuesday by cutting the price of some songs in its market-leading iTunes online store to as little as 69 cents and ...
When Labels Fought the Digital, and the Digital Won
“You can’t roll a joint on an iPod,” the singer-songwriter Shelby Lynne told The New York Times Magazine early last year. And, O.K., I suppose that’s among the iPod’s drawbacks. But it’s hard to think of an electronic device released in recent decades that’s brought more pleasure to more people. Should anyone care that in the ...
Liveblog: Macworld Expo 2009 Tony Bennett and New 17 Inch MacBook Pro Cool or What
The last Apple keynote at Macworld also was the first in many years not to feature a now-ailing Steve Jobs. Stand-in Phil Schiller took over emcee duties and offered up these tidbits in an informative but slightly clunky presentation. (We miss you already, big Steve!) First off the huge news Starting immediately ...
iTunes Goes DRM-Free, Alters Pricing
At the Macworld Expo today, Apple Inc. confirmed reports that all four majors were now onboard to deliver DRM-free music through iTunes. Apple has offered DRM-free music from EMI since May 2007; the new deals unveiled today are with Sony BMG, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group. The company also revealed plans for a new ...
10 Music Industry Stories from the Holiday Break
WHILE YOU WERE OUT: There was a surprising amount of action in the music industry over the two week holiday break. Here is a quick compendium of top stories that you might have missed. Year end sales figures showed that: CD & ringtone sales fell and digital growth slowed Digital sales had their best week ever ...
Could 2009 Be Music's Year of the Garage?
John C Abell at Epicenter resurrected the Rules Of The Garage a kind of 12 commandments of tech written by Bill Hewlett and David Packard that grounded the founding of Hewlett-Packard in their garage back in 1939 - to inspire tech startups battered by the economic downturn. In reading them, I realized that the rules could ...
The Global Jazz Network a Myspace for Jazz
The Global Jazz Network is a movement and a destination where great jazz minds meet and Jazz lovers come together with some of the world's greatest improvisers, educators and singers like Freddie Redd, Slide Hampton, Chico Freeman, Gloria Lynne, Alphonse Mouzon, Roseanna Vitro, Buster Williams, Joseph Bowie, Geoff Lapp, Dr. John Lamkin and many other sidemen ...
