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How Apple is Changing DRM
Ironically, the music companies are now abandoning DRM because it worked too well. Apple wouldn’t license its version to rivals - so the best-selling iPod drove the iTunes store to its present position, where it is the third-largest music retailer in any form in the US. Rosenblatt says that record labels “have been desperate to [...]
It’s Apple iTunes with DRM forever
Something that just a few years ago many thought impossible, Apple has replaced Wal-Mart as the 1000 pound gorilla in retail music, for the month of January 2008 at least. Figures released recently have Apple at 19% of the market to 15% for Wal-Mart. Apparently the concept of the market rejecting DRM is overblown and [...]
Reznor’s Ghost made him $2.65/second
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails cleared a cool $1.6 million in a week since the release of the instrumental work "Ghosts I-IV." With his faith restored in us, he offers all of us a cup o’ joe, on him. Swell!
Google Video not quite dead, yet
As we reported last week, Google Video is closing its commercial video sales wing, the Google Video Store. The controversial decision will see Google eventually shuttering its video Digital Rights Management service, which will render video bought from the store useless.
Fortunately, Google has seen the error of its ways and says it will now [...]
Google Video pulls plug, leaving you with junk
It’s not often that Google kills off one of its services, especially one which was announced with much fanfare at a big mainstream event like CES 2006. Yet Google Video’s commercial aspirations have indeed been terminated: the company has announced that it will no longer be selling video content on the site. The news [...]
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