I thought it was a stupid April Fool's joke - but I am SO GLAD.

I've got a Sansa which I love, but I've been doomed to emusic's horrid selection.

OR, I COULD just go to the library, check out my CD's, and rip them to MP3.

OR, burn my music to CD from i-tunes, rip it back to mp3, and use a tag changer to put the names back on them.

Bleh - i've just been discovering new music at e-music.

Wow. I am really quite amazed by this announcement! I really, honestly thought Jobs was blowing smoke.

"I told you so..."

:)

Decius wrote:

EMI Group will soon sell digital music with better sound quality and no digital rights management restrictions through Apple's iTunes Store.

Wow. I am really quite amazed by this announcement! I really, honestly thought Jobs was blowing smoke.

That makes two of us, but now it's sooo obvious. The market for digital content was losing steam as pirating was starting to creep back into the mainstream. With the slowing of iPod sales as well, it becomes obvious. Eliminate DRM so that you can compete with piracy effectively. You'd rather have some revenue than no revenue. Of course I believe that the content industry has always had this in their plans, but they had to drag us all through hell first. Shawn Fanning and millions of others thank you.

Decius wrote:

EMI Group will soon sell digital music with better sound quality and no digital rights management restrictions through Apple's iTunes Store.

Wow. I am really quite amazed by this announcement! I really, honestly thought Jobs was blowing smoke.

Non DRM'd music might make the store useful for a change... Although 1.29 per song minus packaging and shipping does seep a bit steep.