AllAboutJazz.com Launches DRM-Free Music Store
AllAboutJazz.com has launched a DRM-free music store. Oh wait, the headline says that already. From their press release:
"Our goal is to build a download store in the spirit of the website: comprehensive, timely, and open,” says All About Jazz founder, Michael Ricci. “AAJ readers will have access to an incredible variety of jazz music, from new releases to reissued and out-of-print offerings. We're also committed to selling premium-quality 320kbps DRM-free music.”I'm a big fan of eMusic of course.
Despite eMusic's success, the major four labels are still denying that killing off copy protection makes economic sense (also see this report in the Economist). Despite all the gleeful reports of a Jobsian-induced paradigm shift, copy protection vendors keep insisting DRM increases consumer value while RIAA execs insist DRM is Pro-Consumer.
Lies and denial are not valid business models.