From: "Glenn Meadows" 

It's going to be a more difficult road though, as most artist have
"joint venture" status on the online sale side, and they have to
sign of/go along with any DRM Free initiative as well.  Most artists are
just as greedy, for sure.

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Glenn M.
"Adam" <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the
field.near the bridge"> wrote in message
news:45c99e54{at}w3.nls.net...
> Glenn Meadows wrote:
>> This is actually being discussed in the upper echelon areas of the 4
>> majors.
>> Was a big topic of discussion at the recent MIDEM conference in France.
>>
>
> Yup I think that the Music types are simply going to have to get used to
> the fact that CD'es are digital music & they are DRM free & yet they are
> the main source of sales...
>
> I am sure it will happen as once 1 or 2 do it then they will have a
> sufficiently large competitive advantage that the others will follow.
>
> It is humorous that they are likely to do this just as MS finally gets
> everything down to the MS mouse encrusted with DRM.
>
> Adam

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