Comments on: One small DRM free step for man http://7digital.wordpress.com/2007/04/13/one-small-drm-free-step-for-man/ Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:47:28 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Michael Tim http://7digital.wordpress.com/2007/04/13/one-small-drm-free-step-for-man/#comment-286 Michael Tim Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:15:26 +0000 http://7digital.wordpress.com/2007/04/13/one-small-drm-free-step-for-man/#comment-286 I love your site! _____________________ Experiencing a slow PC recently? <a href="http://tinyurl.com/makemypcfaster" rel="nofollow">Fix it now!</a> I love your site!

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]]> By: Matt Agnew http://7digital.wordpress.com/2007/04/13/one-small-drm-free-step-for-man/#comment-277 Matt Agnew Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:52:35 +0000 http://7digital.wordpress.com/2007/04/13/one-small-drm-free-step-for-man/#comment-277 I know this blog is almost a year old and i know see that warner have given up drm free tracks as well. As im currently a music management student who did quite alot of research into drm, im interested in hearing an up to date opinion from a company such as seven digital on the current situation. i became quite obsessed at how i-tunes were allowed to dominate the market without more pressure to make a universal drm? i've looked at the riaa and steve jobs having a slagging match as well as the french law cases against apple and although im not a lawyer, isnt it pretty obvious that apple are controlling digital music sales due to the fact that they have already a large share in the mp3 player market, which you'd probably agree that it isn't fair competition especially if its coming from something thats meant to stop people sharing files. But now that mp3 players are due to be sold as mobile phones, that takes away ipods stronghold in the player market, surely it'll be tougher for them to compete with nokia, sony ericsson and samsung with their iphone. So it sorta seperates the relationship in market share between ipod and itunes but if companies such as omniphone are offering unlimited downloads for £1.99, which i-tunes are probably going to respond to but where does it leave companies such as 7digital? who arent on a subscription service and costs £1.50 for one single track by sms. Are you convinced that subscription services are the way forward now if the main way of paying for the track (by card to computer) may be soon outdated, as more people will soon probably download directly to their phone? Obviously I'm only a student, i've no experience in digital music sales, i even applied for work experience for your company with no word back, but do you not think that simply waiting for drm to dissapear is not enough to successfully compete? hopefully i get some feedback as your situation is quite interesting to watch. I know this blog is almost a year old and i know see that warner have given up drm free tracks as well. As im currently a music management student who did quite alot of research into drm, im interested in hearing an up to date opinion from a company such as seven digital on the current situation. i became quite obsessed at how i-tunes were allowed to dominate the market without more pressure to make a universal drm? i’ve looked at the riaa and steve jobs having a slagging match as well as the french law cases against apple and although im not a lawyer, isnt it pretty obvious that apple are controlling digital music sales due to the fact that they have already a large share in the mp3 player market, which you’d probably agree that it isn’t fair competition especially if its coming from something thats meant to stop people sharing files.

But now that mp3 players are due to be sold as mobile phones, that takes away ipods stronghold in the player market, surely it’ll be tougher for them to compete with nokia, sony ericsson and samsung with their iphone. So it sorta seperates the relationship in market share between ipod and itunes but if companies such as omniphone are offering unlimited downloads for £1.99, which i-tunes are probably going to respond to but where does it leave companies such as 7digital? who arent on a subscription service and costs £1.50 for one single track by sms. Are you convinced that subscription services are the way forward now if the main way of paying for the track (by card to computer) may be soon outdated, as more people will soon probably download directly to their phone? Obviously I’m only a student, i’ve no experience in digital music sales, i even applied for work experience for your company with no word back, but do you not think that simply waiting for drm to dissapear is not enough to successfully compete?

hopefully i get some feedback as your situation is quite interesting to watch.

]]> By: 7digital Raises $8.5 Million for Games and Video http://7digital.wordpress.com/2007/04/13/one-small-drm-free-step-for-man/#comment-274 7digital Raises $8.5 Million for Games and Video Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:46:56 +0000 http://7digital.wordpress.com/2007/04/13/one-small-drm-free-step-for-man/#comment-274 [...] EMI made the decision in April to go DRM free, 7digital noted on their blog that they “grinned ear to ear.” Since that time, they’ve seen music download [...] [...] EMI made the decision in April to go DRM free, 7digital noted on their blog that they “grinned ear to ear.” Since that time, they’ve seen music download [...]

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