it begins.
NIN is apparently free from label interference.
This, following the radiohead announcement, seems to me like the floodgates are about to open.
Expect major acts to be going it on their own all through 2008. Expect change.
Expect shit to get a lot more complicated for Apple, and every other music retailer, once they don't have lumbering, massive corporations to blame things on / deal with, and instead need to deal directly with every major artist, each with different terms, each with no real need for the service.
These are the glory days, new media fans. Watch the skies.
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Not to mention that both Amazon and Microsoft now offer DRM-free Music. Apple is going to have to step up to the plate soon.
that too, but it's really not as impressive to me. mostly because the DRM free music offered is still stuck in a traditional structure that has been proven to be less-than-sufficient in supplanting piracy.
no one on the label or technology side is actually doing anything disruptive. DRM free music is just doing something that ISN'T stupid.
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