Comments on: EMI tears down the wall http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/04/02/emi-tears-down-the-wall/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:41:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Jake http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/04/02/emi-tears-down-the-wall/#comment-243022 Jake Mon, 02 Apr 2007 17:55:56 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/04/02/emi-tears-down-the-wall/#comment-243022 This is huge for me. I have never considered buying music from the iTunes store, mostly because of the DRM but also because of the sound quality issue--I'm not an obsessive audiophile, but I don't like the idea that 128kbps is the best I'm ever going to do. Suffice it to say that this solution solves both problems in one stroke, and there's no question that it's worth the price premium for the added value. Not to mention the fact that it reduces the number of songs from an album you need to buy to make the album essentially free (if I understand how the recent announcement on applying purchases to full album purchases works). Point being, for the first time ever I'm willing to consider paying for music from iTMS. It's a big deal. I'm pretty damn confident that this is the first step in a fairly quick process resulting in universal DRM-free paid downloads on iTMS and every other relevant online music store. This is huge for me. I have never considered buying music from the iTunes store, mostly because of the DRM but also because of the sound quality issue–I’m not an obsessive audiophile, but I don’t like the idea that 128kbps is the best I’m ever going to do. Suffice it to say that this solution solves both problems in one stroke, and there’s no question that it’s worth the price premium for the added value. Not to mention the fact that it reduces the number of songs from an album you need to buy to make the album essentially free (if I understand how the recent announcement on applying purchases to full album purchases works). Point being, for the first time ever I’m willing to consider paying for music from iTMS. It’s a big deal.

I’m pretty damn confident that this is the first step in a fairly quick process resulting in universal DRM-free paid downloads on iTMS and every other relevant online music store.

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