I fail to see how DRM-interoperability solves the major labels’ problems. So, open up the DRM and you can listen to tracks purchased at the iTunes Music Store on competitive hand-helds.  This could erode iPod dominance.  Then again, maybe not.  Is that really what’s selling the iPod, iTMS compatibility?  Sure, it might make someone think […]

I don’t know if you’re following this story, but no one has explained it more clearly than this guy in "The New Yorker". This may sound like science fiction, but this battle is VERY real.  The ISPs ARE trying to do this.  Editorials have appeared in major newspapers taking the same position, but they only […]

Give Rupert Murdoch credit.  He’s savvier than Tom Freston and the whole lot of them over at Paramount.  And Tom Cruise too. Rupert knows it’s a new era.  That old media is in trouble.  That’s why he purchased myspace.  He’s making a play for the future, just like he got into satellite TV years back. […]

You’ve got to read this article: Broadband Penetration IncreaseBottom line, 68% of Web-users now connect via broadband. Somehow, the record labels think it’s all about iPods.  That the revolution won’t be complete until everybody has a hand-held music device, if ever.  But the iPod is the explosion.  The revolution comes with broadband penetration. Broadband jump-started […]