Recently, Apple announced that 100% of it’s iTunes library will be free of DRM by the end of the quarter. With Amazon and Wal-Mart running a DRM free operation as well, I think it’s safe to start buying music again.What the RIAA never understood is that people WANT to buy music. They just don’t want them ramming restrictions down our throats after we purchase it. That’d be like Samsung telling me what channels to watch on the TV I purchased. Or Audi Honda telling me where to go after I bought my car. Instead of realizing this and trying to fix it, they sue twelve year old girls that bootleg a $20 Pussycat Dolls album and wonder why she’s doing it.
In the end, piracy isn’t to blame for the recently decline in record sales, it’s DRM. Piracy is but a protest towards the RIAA’s shady practices. Services like iTunes, who provide a la carte options or whole albums at very reasonable prices are no doubt the future of this business. Maybe thats why iTunes is now the #1 music store, and after axing DRM will be for a long time. The CD is dead (if you don’t believe me come check out the stack of CD-Rs I bought at Costco three years ago) and the DRM free MP3 shall live on.
Dude, Torrents will never go away, I love them way to much