The music download store 7digital.com is reporting that since the introduction of DRM-free music from the labels Warner and EMI, sales have skyrocketed over 300 percent propelling the site into second place behind Apple iTunes as the UK's biggest digital retailer.
Year on year download sales were up 300 percent for the year ended June 30th 2008, with CEO Ben Drury adding, ?High-quality, ... [ read the full article ]
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Still won't appease them. Because as long as torrent trackers and sharing sites exist, the music industry will claim that they sales could have been up by 600%. And they will keep fighting to tighten the IP noose.
I don't know,I think 7Digital's done complaining for now.
They're finally open to the fact that DRM sucks.It's unfair for the buyer,and puts the company itself at a very large fall point compared to a provider that doesn't use DRM.
Crippling music files is a pretty lousy way to get customers,and 7Digital finally realized that DRM is the same thing as consumercide.
I bought DRM,because you can always rerecord it and negate it yourself.It's the principle of it,the fact that they are attempting to cripple it makes me angry.
