A while ago, I bought some songs from indepedent artists and I asked the artists if they would mind if I removed the FairPlay DRM from their music. They didn’t mind, nor did they ask me to pay an additional 30 cents…

@MetaMan: It was supposed to be $1.30 which means that it is about a $0.30 increase. It’s a little high in my opinion but I would reather pay a little bit extra to get music without the DRM.

Next, yes, I’d be willing to pay 20 cents more for DRM-free music. In fact, I’d be willing to pay another 20 cents for lossless encoded music. While these should have been part of online music from the start, and therefore consumers should not have to pay more for them, the fact is that they weren’t, and at least this is progress in the right direction. Eventually some online store will start under-cutting, and the price will go back down.

As a side note, I like CDs too, but often I only like one or two songs on the album, in which case it is saving me money to buy online. When buying the whole album is worth the money, I do.

I’ve always hated less than CD quality sound..simply b/c all lower quality sound and codecs are designed to get rid of the sound frequencies you hear primarily at higher decibels (volume).

If anyone knows a good place to find pirated CD quality music..w/o DRM online…pleeeease let me know. Thanks!

I also prefer to have a physical copy, so no matter what happens to my computer, I’ll still have the music.

…in conclusion, I like CD’s.

*DRM-free
*70 cents price (30 cents cheaper, not 30 cents more expensive)
*.WAV quality music…nothing less (why should I buy music online in a significantly lower quality, when I can get it cheaper and higher quality on CD)
*Majority of profits going to the artists (the major labels often don’t return even a cent of every CD’s sales to the artists, and in many cases artists owe money to the labels for signing with them..and lose money on each CD sale…and only have the option to make money off of tours/concerts)

This was a manipulative way to force consumers to pay more for DRM-free music, which is something music started out as (DRM-free)

The last question in this audio of the announcement:
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a good reporter calls them out on the fact that a 20% price increase is unjustified..b/c it isn’t really adding anything…we couldn’t have had and more..before the birth of DRM, and costs no more to produce.

It’s 20% pure profits going in there hands…and people are so blind sighted by this for some reason. This fundamentally changes nothing in the music industry…it only restores what we once had (DRM-free music) at a hiked cost to the consumer. This is the music industry at it’s worst, not at it’s best….it isn’t evolving in any way with the industry and consumer demands.