Exec: Music labels "about to cave in the next six months" on DRM

[admin]

Ty Roberts, CTO of Gracenote, made the claim this week that the music industry was "about to cave in the next six months" on the issue of DRM, at least when it comes to downloads ...

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070425-exec-music-labels-about-to-cave-in-the-next-six-months-on-drm.html

[Chewy]

Once the first record label signed with apple for drm-less wma's and now amazon is going to mp3's, they know they can't compete.

[admin]

Once music is DRM-free, hopefully they can start selling DRM-free movies. If you sell them cheap enough, people won't see the need to pirate them.