Jan 30 2008
In a move which is by the far the most credible threat to Apple’s dominance of the online music scene, Amazon will start rolling out it’s online music store to countries outside of the USA over the course of 2008. From the press release: Amazon to Begin International Rollout of Amazon MP3 in 2008 SEATTLE–(BUSINESS […]
Jan 09 2008
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas has certainly been generating lots of news over the last few days. I’ve got a couple of posts lined with my opinions on some of the more interesting items, starting with the news that Sony have released news that they will be joining the rest of the […]
Nov 08 2007
Just in case you need another reason why DRM is bad, read this article about the Major League Baseball revoking their DRM license, thus rendering all purchased & downloaded videos now unwatchable. MLB rips off fans who bought DRM videos Fans shafted as Major League Baseball revokes DRM licenses
May 16 2007
PC World NZ has the details (via Public Address | Hard News) on the pricing for individual DRM-free tracks from Apple’s iTunes Music Store. Turns out NZ’ers will be paying $2.49 per track, which is a 39% premium over the DRM-crippled tracks that currently sell for $1.79. This is also 9% more than US and […]
Apr 03 2007
It took a major announcement by Apple and EMI for me to break my blogging silence. Yesterday in London, EMI Group CEO Eric Nicoli and Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that EMI will be allowing DRM-free downloads of their entire music catalogue through Apple’s iTunes Music Store. Not only that, but the DRM-free tracks will […]