[Fmpro] More chinks in the wall -from the biggest Apple

[Les Hurdle]

er hum

Why do we pay for Apple product at all?

BTW.... I'll have a new Merc or Caddy since the
dealership doesn't pay for music any more. ;-)

Surely the questions have to be directed to the Boards
of the PRO's and publishers who have dropped the ball
for the creator [not the rights owner !!!!!]... as JJB
posted......... someone will be getting 'the money' !

L

--- scott at szabosoundandmusic.com wrote:

> Perhaps Mr Jobs should release an unlicensed version
> of his FairPlay system so that everyone can just
> play any music on any box just like an iPod. That is
> what he is asking composers and songwriters to do.
> He rejected that idea but we should give up what
> little tracking (and collecting) ability we do have.
> Since he now has video iPods for sale I'm sure that
> it would be good for him if we simply released all
> video content (unrestricted) as well.
> 
> Scott Szabo
> 
> >----- ------- Original Message ------- -----
> >From: Phil Kelly <lonearrngr at comcast.net>
> >To: fmpro at nxport.com
> >Sent: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 11:09:42
> >
> >read it and weep      Phil Kelly
> >
> >February 7, 2007
> >
> >Jobs Calls for End to Music Copy Protection
> >By JOHN MARKOFF
> >
> >
> >SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6 —  Steven P. Jobs,
> >Apple’s chief executive, 
> >jolted the record industry on Tuesday by calling on
> >its largest 
> >companies to allow online music sales unfettered by
> >antipiracy 
> >software.
> >
> >The move is a gamble for Apple. Its iPod players
> >and iTunes Store have 
> >defined the online music market, and they have much
> >at stake in the 
> >current copy-protection system.
> >
> >Under terms reached with the major record labels,
> >online music stores 
> >embed software code into the digital song files
> >they sell to restrict 
> >the ability to copy them. Because Apple uses its
> >own system, the songs 
> >it sells can be played only on the iPod. That
> >limitation has drawn 
> >increasing scrutiny from European governments,
> >pressure that Apple has 
> >recently begun to acknowledge.
> >
> >Mr. Jobs’s appeal, posted on the company’s Web
> >site Tuesday, came in 
> >the form of an essay titled “Thoughts on
> >Music,� but in essence it was 
> >a letter to the “Big 4� music companies:
> >Universal, Sony BMG, Warner 
> >and EMI.
> >
> >While he said that “customers are being well
> >served� by the current 
> >approach to digital rights management — with
> >online music retailers 
> >using incompatible antipiracy systems but
> >nonetheless offering “a wide 
> >variety of choices� — the subtext clearly
> >pointed to the prospect of 
> >change.
> >
> >He dismissed one possible alternative, in which
> >Apple would license its 
> >own system, FairPlay, allowing competing digital
> >players to play iTunes 
> >songs and letting other stores sell copy-protected
> >music for the iPod. 
> >Mr. Jobs said that approach would only complicate
> >enforcement of 
> >digital rights management, as myriad companies
> >would have to coordinate 
> >software and hardware updates.
> >
> >Instead, he proposed that labels could shed digital
> >rights management 
> >altogether. Mr. Jobs pointed out that only 10
> >percent of all music sold 
> >last year was through an online store and that
> >music is already easily 
> >loaded onto digital players from CDs, with no
> >antipiracy features. 
> >Attaching digital rights management to music bought
> >online has only 
> >limited the number of online music stores, he
> >wrote.
> >
> >“This is clearly the best alternative for
> >consumers, and Apple would 
> >embrace it in a heartbeat,� he wrote.
> >
> >Mr. Jobs’s move comes as the music industry
> >appears to be facing a 
> >crisis. Sales of its mainstay product — the album
> >— continue to sink, 
> >and sales of digital music, including individual
> >songs, have not 
> >increased fast enough to offset the decline.
> >
> >With a paucity of hit releases to start the year,
> >industrywide album 
> >sales are already down more than 15 percent from
> >last year, the worst 
> >January performance since computerized sales
> >tracking began in 1991.
> >
> >At a forum in France last month, Rob Glaser, chief
> >executive of 
> >RealNetworks, which operates the Rhapsody digital
> >music service, 
> >predicted the widespread availability of
> >unrestricted digital music 
> >within a few years. He said it was “an idea in
> >ascendance and whose 
> >time has come.�
> >
> >But Mr. Jobs is clearly the most powerful voice
> >raised so far in 
> >support of a change. With the clout built on his
> >company’s market share 
> >for both players and music, he has already
> >prevailed against the labels 
> >in disputes over pricing.
> >
> >Facing pressure to bolster digital sales, the four
> >major music 
> >companies have only toyed with the idea of selling
> >unprotected files — 
> >most notably with a personalized version of a
> >Jessica Simpson song and 
> >the first single from the new album of Norah Jones.
> >MySpace, the 
> >social-networking giant that is host to pages for
> >countless independent 
> >and major-label acts, has embraced the unrestricted
> >MP3 format for 
> >artists who choose to sell music there.
> >
> >More recently, the industry has been abuzz with
> >rumors that one or more 
> >of the major companies is preparing to lift
> >restrictions on some 
> >portions of their digital catalog.
> >
> >Jeanne Meyer, a spokeswoman for EMI, said, “The
> >lack of 
> >interoperability between a proliferating range of
> >digital platforms and 
> >devices is increasingly becoming a real issue for
> >music consumers.�
> >
> >The Universal Music Group, the Warner Music Group
> >and Sony BMG Music 
> >Entertainment declined to comment. But several
> >industry executives said 
> >they viewed Mr. Jobs’s comments as an effort to
> >deflect blame from 
> >Apple and onto the record companies for the
> >incompatibility of various 
> >digital music devices and services.
> >
> >There is a general sense that the industry is still
> >unwilling to do 
> >away completely with copy protection, and no
> >contracts have been signed 
> >yet to change the systems of distribution by any of
> >the players.
> >
> >A senior executive at one company, who requested
> >anonymity to avoid 
> >straining relations with Apple, said that while
> >labels might experiment 
> >with other forms of copy-protection software,
> >“we’re not going to 
> >broadly license our content for unprotected digital
> >distribution.�
> >
> >Another digital music industry executive said that
> >the record companies 
> >— many of them part of larger media companies
> >involved in movie and 
> >television production — were concerned that
> >lifting restrictions on 
> >digital music might have perilous effects on the
> >parallel market for 
> >copy-protected video content.
> >
> >Several consumer electronics and music industry
> >executives said that if 
> >the music industry moved away from copy protection,
> >it could 
> >potentially make it easier for competing music
> >players. Mr. Jobs seems 
> >to be betting that anything that stimulates the
> 
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