{"id":11876,"date":"2008-01-11T12:09:10","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T19:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/01\/11\/music-hark-8.html"},"modified":"2008-01-11T12:09:10","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T19:09:10","slug":"music_hark_8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/11\/music_hark_8.html","title":{"rendered":"Music, hark!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coolness.&nbsp; Sony is the last of the major labels to finally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/11\/technology\/11sony.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin\" target=\"_blank\">offer non-DRMed MP3 tracks for sale at Amazon<\/a>.&nbsp; That&#8217;s spiffy both because it means, well, music available without PC- and fair-use-crippling DRM, but it sets Amazon up as a serious competitor to Apple&#8217;s iTunes store.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The trade-off:&nbsp; Apple&#8217;s music has DRM in it, but it&#8217;s all 99-cents per track; Amazon&#8217;s music is DRM-free, but is offered at variable prices based on what the music labels want.&nbsp; (That price variability is almost certainly why the labels have hopped on the Amazon bandwagon, both because it lets them charge what they want&nbsp; and to pressure Apple to do the same).<\/p>\n<p>Competition.&nbsp; Non-crippleware music.&nbsp; It&#8217;s all good &#8212; and I say that as someone who never buys tracks online.<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<p>(via Doyce)<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coolness.&nbsp; Sony is the last of the major labels to finally offer non-DRMed MP3 tracks for sale at Amazon.&nbsp; That&#8217;s spiffy both because it means, well, music available without PC-&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-moguls","category-media-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30754,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/22\/amazon-works-great-until-it-fails-catastrophically.html","url_meta":{"origin":11876,"position":0},"title":"Amazon works great until it fails catastrophically","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 22-Oct-12 10:20am","format":false,"excerpt":"Take the below case, where someone had their account canceled by Amazon, and inquiries got back frustratingly\u00a0vague messages that her account had been associated with another Bad Actor, and so was being canceled.Which would be an unpleasant circumstance, if it weren't that her Kindle account was\u00a0canceled, the Kindle\u00a0wiped, and all\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30088,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/05\/theres-ownership-and-then-theres-not-really-ownership.html","url_meta":{"origin":11876,"position":1},"title":"There&#39;s ownership, and then there&#39;s not-really-ownership","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 5-Sep-12 11:35am","format":false,"excerpt":"There are no actual good (vs. accurate) answers to the question. \u00a0Bottom line, Big Media has ensured that copyright (currently) lasts for 70 years after the author's death*, but your DRMed licensed library of books from Amazon (et al.) are locked to your account and effectively die when you do.Unless,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":43826,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/24\/comixology-shifts-to-drm-free-where-it-can.html","url_meta":{"origin":11876,"position":2},"title":"ComiXology shifts to DRM-free (where it can)","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 24-Jul-14 5:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This is very welcome. I was aware that the comics I've been buying from ComiXology are actually DRMed, so that I can't back them up or view them through other readers. \u00a0I accepted that as part of the cost vs finding places for hardcopy comics.But now ComiXology is offering the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":43160,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/20\/hoist-on-ones-own-drm-petard.html","url_meta":{"origin":11876,"position":3},"title":"Hoist on one&#39;s own DRM petard","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 20-Jun-14 11:43am","format":false,"excerpt":"DRM is Digital Rights Management, i.e., the stuff that (unsuccessfully) keeps pirates from making illegal copies of digital books, music, games, etc. \u00a0Generrally speaking, DRM sucks. \u00a0Usually it just sucks for the consumer. \u00a0Occasionally it sucks for the folks who insist upon using it.Reshared post from +Doyce TestermanDRM Sucks: Big-Five\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2273,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/17\/googlezon.html","url_meta":{"origin":11876,"position":4},"title":"Googlezon","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 17-Jul-02 2:34pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Extreme coolness. Someone has come up with a Google-like search page for Amazon.com called Amazon Light, which draws on the Amazon XML feeds. I actually don't have that tough of...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hi-Tech&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hi-Tech","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/hi-tech"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":39578,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/05\/reveal-more-hidden-things.html","url_meta":{"origin":11876,"position":5},"title":"Reveal More Hidden Things","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 5-Nov-13 12:52pm","format":false,"excerpt":"There's a ton of coolness here, and I'd love to see those Kickstarter stretch goals met. \u00a0Give it a look, and then (I hope) give it some money.Reshared post from +Doyce TestermanThe Hidden Things Audiobook kickstarter is funded, but despite my aversion to self-promotion, I feel compelled to mention it\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}