Thoughts on Music por Steve Jobs
La industria de la “distribución de la música” esta pasando por cambios sin precedentes, hoy Steve Jobs -Presidente de Apple- publico sus pensamientos sobre este tema.
ALGUNOS PENSAMIENTOS…
The problem, of course, is that there are many smart people in the world, some with a lot of time on their hands, who love to discover such secrets and publish a way for everyone to get free (and stolen) music.Through the end of 2006, customers purchased a total of 90 million iPods and 2 billion songs from the iTunes store. On average, that’s 22 songs purchased from the iTunes store for each iPod ever sold.
Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store can sell music which is playable on all players.
If the big four music companies would license Apple their music without the requirement that it be protected with a DRM, we would switch to selling only DRM-free music on our iTunes store.
In 2006, under 2 billion DRM-protected songs were sold worldwide by online stores, while over 20 billion songs were sold completely DRM-free and unprotected on CDs by the music companies themselves.
So if the music companies are selling over 90 percent of their music DRM-free, what benefits do they get from selling the remaining small percentage of their music encumbered with a DRM system? There appear to be none.
Much of the concern over DRM systems has arisen in European countries. Perhaps those unhappy with the current situation should redirect their energies towards persuading the music companies to sell their music DRM-free.
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el día Febrero 6th, 2007 a las 9:11 pm
Me dejo loco la carta abierta de Jobs sobre el tema.
Mis comentarios al respecto, aqui.
el día Febrero 6th, 2007 a las 10:36 pm
la respuesta del gobierno de Noruega a la carta de Jobs.
el día Febrero 6th, 2007 a las 10:38 pm
gracias Manny!
el día Febrero 8th, 2007 a las 11:53 pm
en el blog de Frog Design también se hablo del tema y esta buena la conclusión del señor Tim Leberecht:
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