Looking at techmeme, Steve Jobs just topped his own announcement of the iPhone with his "Thoughts on Music", basically a call for DRM-free music downloads. Thomas Hawk has looked at the announcement from a marketing perspective and I agree with his assesment, "So Jobs basically today admits that DRM is a boneheaded idea, but
justifies it by using the, hey, it’s not me, line, it’s the big bad
record labels." Incidentally, today the Osbournes announced that this year’s Ozzfest will be free of admission fees. Read this:
""Everybody has been so good to us over the years, and year after year
ticket prices get higher and higher and higher," Osbourne’s wife and
Ozzfest co-founder, Sharon, told MTV News. "And we just thought we
can’t keep on raising ticket prices because there is not that much
money out there anymore. Hey, kids can go online and download music,
why not go to a show for free too? What the heck? Ozzy’s got a new
record coming out this year, he’ll be touring the whole year. There is
plenty of time to make money."
This is the beginning, I tell you. And Dream Theater will not sign another deal for X records but self-market from now on, knowing that they have enough fair fans who shell out 10$ per album.
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