I completely agree with this rant and it's what i've been thinking since i read the news this morning.
I believe this is also EMI's solution to Apple not wanting to raise the price of music. This way they have their higher prices and if DRM-free music takes off, Apple will drop the 99 cent variety and offer all songs at 1.29 while still being the good guy, compared to if they just raised their prices overnight.
And if DRM is such a bother, i could buy a 10 song album for 12.90 or i could go to a cd store and buy the same album for less without file restrictions.
Albums still cost 9.99$. They're only offering high bitrate, unDRMed files for the albums but keeping the same price point. If anything the $1.29 is encouragement to get people to buy full albums.
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I completely agree with this rant and it's what i've been thinking since i read the news this morning.
I believe this is also EMI's solution to Apple not wanting to raise the price of music. This way they have their higher prices and if DRM-free music takes off, Apple will drop the 99 cent variety and offer all songs at 1.29 while still being the good guy, compared to if they just raised their prices overnight.
And if DRM is such a bother, i could buy a 10 song album for 12.90 or i could go to a cd store and buy the same album for less without file restrictions.
Albums still cost 9.99$. They're only offering high bitrate, unDRMed files for the albums but keeping the same price point. If anything the $1.29 is encouragement to get people to buy full albums.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6516189.stm