March 27, 2008

Music without copyright protection

Could the music industry actually becoming used to selling music online without any copy protection? With two internet giants Amazon and Apple have been doing so and have the top spots on music sales.

But although this is a bold move by the music industry and the music sellers, sales have not really been going through the roof, which begs the question that if they are seller copy protection free music and are still not achieving the sales that they would have expected, then it has to be something else.

This is the problem with supply, in order to really get a grasp on the music sector, the whole industry record companies and music sellers need to be supplying the right music at the right prices. This is only way that the industry as whole is going to put an end to file sharing and any other process that involves copying the music and passing it on.

Source [Yahoo]