Murphy Mac

Walmart Moves Its Music Forward

It's hard to believe this story could be written without mentioning Walmarts recent music business activity.

Walmart pulled the rug on its previous customers, telling them they were shutting down their DRM servers, making customer purchases useless unless they burnt them to cd. A process people who bought hundreds or thousands of songs wouldn't be excited about.

MS has played a similar game.

Netflix May Dominate The Online Video World, But With What Business Model?

This is how easy it would be for Apple to apply the Netflix subscription model to video downloads:

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Why the studios are so willing to distribute easy-to-copy DVDs instead of pushing iTunes DRM is beyond me.