GristyMcFisty used our news submit to tell us that well known Entrepreneur Michael Robertson founder of the well known firm Lindows (now Linspire) is planning to start his own DRM-free online digital music store next week called MP3 Tunes. The company is set to announce the launch of the service on February 9th along with both hardware and software products to go with the service. Michael Robertson commented on the fact that certain market forces were trying to make users use a proprietary system that made consumers buy particular player or software program.
On the new MP3 Tunes service he said that the service will be the first of many products that will be offered by the company. The MP3 Tunes service will offer tracks free of Digital Rights Management meaning that consumers can use the music on any device or computer as well as burning as many copies as they like. Robertson said that music companies would love consumers to buy music several times over either online or on cd but that consumers want to know that the product they have bought belongs to them whatever device they may be using.
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"He said MP3 Tunes will provide more options, compelling him to get back into the music sector. He said that the online music store will be the first of the products the new company will offer. But, he said, MP3 Tunes will offer all tracks without digital rights management so that customers can use the music on any player or computer, make unlimited copies of songs, and burn music onto CDs. Certainly there"s a demand for this. While music companies would love people to buy the same album several times over on vinyl, on cassette, on CD, online and goodness knows in what future method, people would like to know that the digital music they"ve bought remains theirs, whatever the device they"re using. |
Thankfully there is someone out there that will finally break this DRM obsession with music companies, hopefully MP3 Tunes will be the start of a revolution.
Source: The Inquirer
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This service is a move in the right direction. There's more that needs to be done (lossless content at a buck a song instead of lossy content) but it's a start.
[edited by Roj on 03.02.2005 20:43]
