subspatial Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 According to the USAToday: "Record label Sony BMG Music Entertainment, .... has become the first major record label to sell an unprotected digital song. Jessica Simpson's A Public Affair went on sale this week at Yahoo Music, and .... it is compatible with all portable music players. The song is in the open MP3 format and can be transferred to an Apple iPod or players by Creative, Samsung and others." Wow .. someone must have hit their head really hard or something... Crap song, but at least it's in open format. The full story is here at USAToday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arktis Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 The song is in the open MP3 format and can be transferred to an Apple iPod or players by Creative' date=' Samsung and others.[/quote'] I wouldn't excatly call the mp3 format "open" (it's proprietary, you wankers!), but at least it's a step in the (somewhat) right general direction. What I'd really like to see is for all players to support ogg, a REAL open format, and for songs to be released under that format. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenebrae Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 To be honest, Jessica Simpson probably needs all the help she can get. When her husband divorces here for being thicker than two short planks and she stops being flavour of the month, well. Back to the whore shop with her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arktis Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 :stare: :rolleyes: :cyclops: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TetsuoShima Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 It's a good initiative though. The idea behind it is pretty solid too. Why put DRM on files that are available elsewhere (cd's) without it... Only to limit consumerchoices... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenebrae Posted July 27, 2006 Share Posted July 27, 2006 Why use DRM? Because the music/film industry are under the impression that everyone is an idiot who will be incapable of going online and finding out a way to get around the protection. While most people are idiots, chances are they know a person that will hold their hand to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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