“EMI Group PLC’s digital revenue may rise from offering music without software that prevents copying, based on early sales of unprotected recordings through Apple Inc.’s iTunes store,” Don Jeffrey reports for Bloomberg News.
“‘The initial results of DRM-free music are good,’ Lauren Berkowitz, a senior vice president of London-based EMI, said Wednesday at a music industry conference in New York,” Jeffrey reports. “Apple’s iTunes store, the largest online music seller, began offering unprotected EMI recordings May 30.”
“Berkowitz said the early results from iTunes indicate that DRM-free offerings may boost revenue from digital albums as well as individual songs. She said that sales of Pink Floyd’s classic rock album Dark Side of the Moon had risen since the DRM-free digital versions became legally available,” Jeffrey reports.
Full article here.
&mpSpeak to Me, Ms. Berkowitz. It’s Time for the other labels to Breathe in the Air. Apple and EMI have set up a classic Us and Them situation. In our opinion, the future is basically Any Colour You Like as long as it’s DRM-free. You’d better hop to it, guys, before you headline The Great Gig in the Sky. EMI could be set to Eclipse the other DRM-loving labels. Apple’s got ’em On the Run. What’s the matter music labels, do you have Brain Damage or something? You don’t want to make even more Money?
you made me Pink and cubby with your take MDN
Good for EMI, they deserve to be proven right for supporting SJ!
Shine on you Crazy Diamond
Listening to On the Run still gives me acid flashbacks.
One of These Days the other labels will come around.
Better sales? It’s good they’re able to Barrett. Who Waters good news down? Wright? Roger that. Probably in the Nick of time, too. Listeners are filling to the Gil. Mour the merrier. Tell the whole family Ma! Son everyone will take heart of the controls.
Nice to see this headline. I was wondering how the DRM-free effort was going.
This should be good for Apple because people should not feel “tied down” to one platform since iTunes is selling DRM-free music. More iPods sold = more revenue generated = potentially better stock price.
Thanks for the take, MDN. Only my favorite band of all time, and Dark Side and Wish You Were Here are my favs of the fav.
MDN word: another…please sir, may I have another?
Every once in a while, the big labels have a momentary lapse of reason.
Wow, this DRM free is “A New Machine” that has music “Coming Back to Life”.
If this spreads to other Folyd albums then the RIAA will have to “Run Like Hell” or “Have a Cigar” and accept the fact that DRM is the way and if they don’t realize they are “On Thin Ice” because with “One Slip” they could fall behind and it would be the “Happiest Days of Our Lives”.
If I keep “Talking” like this I will have to say “Goodbye Cruel World” and give myself “The Final Cut” and get “Waiting for the Worms.”
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun!
And now we unleash the Dogs of War.
I hear if you play the soundtrack of Steve’s 2007 Macworld keynote along with The Wizards of Oz, they match up perfectly, and Dorothy puts on the ruby slippers at the exact moment that Steve pulls out the iPhone.
Goodbye, Blue Sky. =(
I have a strange hobby, but it suits me fine.
Careful With That Axe, Eugene.
@ ChrissyOne
This lapse has lasted a little bit too long don’t you think? I guess it is in M$’s benefit to induce this lapse & prolong it via temptation of money supposedly coming from them!
Lovin’ the take, MDN. Funny and creative… lol
Clever take MDN, but it still does nothing for the inevitable pin-hole burns.
Of course there were all those previously sold EMI tunes that were upgraded. That could have an effect on short term sales numbers.
MDN,
My respect for you has increased 10-fold with that take!
It would have been even more impressive if you had managed to get all the songs in the correct order!
Now I read the thread – very impressive people – especially C1 and her Wizard of Oz reference!
Also, “Animals” is the best album to listen to when you are driving on a long road trip.
Sounds like Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict