DRM-free Diana Krall online
p2pnet news | Music:- Would you pay $C16.67 (or thereabouts) for an MP3 download of Canadian jazz pianist and singer Diana Krall’s A Night In Paris album?
You would? Then you’ll want to know about Universal’s latest effort to cash in on downloads.
It’s launched a three-month trial under which its Universal Music Classics & Jazz is selling its full catalogue DRM-free, “as part of an experiment to gauge fans’ demand for MP3 tracks,” says Guardian Unlimited.
“www.classicsandjazz.co.uk will explore the appetite for DRM-free ‘open’ MP3s – which can be played on a full range of devices including MP3 players, mobile phones and Apple’s iPod,” says the story.
DRM-free MP3s will cost the same as polluted files and, “anyone who has already bought an album from the site will be offered a free upgrade,” it adds.
You can also download individual tracks —- at $C1.56 each.
Good idea and it shows a little light at the end of what’s continuing to be a very long tunnel.
Meanwhile, demand isn’t in question. Cost is, though, and as usual, greed (over-pricing) will be be the sticking block.
MP3 certainly doesn’t mean high fidelity and meanwhile, Amazon UK has the real deal for $C13.73.
P2P networks, anyone?
Also See:
Guardian Unlimited – Jazz label joins the DRM-free revolution, November 7, 2007
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November 8th, 2007 at 11:35 am
What about $1 CAN == $1.08 US??
Where is the fair price? Another mistake of the Cartel: setting artificial geographical boundaries (already erased by the Internet). Why not just make the Apple and Amazon store worldwide, since there is nothing to ship? If p2p is worldwide, why not make the music stores worldwide too?
November 8th, 2007 at 11:42 am
Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t view jazz as an appropriate measure of what regular (normal) p2pers (music downloaders) would download thus I highly doubt that anyone but my grandparents will be spending $1.56 on a fucking jazz mp3. (that’s like $20.28 for thirteen tracks) What they claim is an experiment is merely yet another chance for them to say “See, I told you so!”.
November 8th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
^^ its just you
November 8th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
oh well.