“The music industry will give up copyright protection on digital music before the end of the year, enabling every downloaded song to be played on every type of digital music player and finally unleashing the profit potential of widespread, legally downloaded, paid-for music .. This is the bold, optimistic prediction of David Pakman, the bold, optimistic kind of guy who heads the online retailer eMusic, the nearest thing that Apple’s iTunes has to a rival … Mr Pakman thinks his time has come. ‘If we’re still talking about DRM in five years, please take me out and shoot me.’ “

eMusic’s Chief Executive speaks to The Independent, here.

Posted Sunday, February 25th, 2007 @ 1:25 pm
Filed in business and productivity, copyright and drm, science and tech

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Further reading

1. Music sales decline
2. Unprotected music vs “cooling-off”
3. EMI go DRM-free