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Two Things
Firstly, it doesn't seem like the music companies realize that DRM locks them in just as firmly as it locks in consumer choices. Choose BrandX-DRM and suddenly your potential market share equals BrandX-DRM's market share, and not one jot more.

Maybe you could increase market share by using BrandX-DRM on one music sale site and Banana-DRM on another site. But trying to support multiple DRMs increases production costs which limits profitability, and provides more opportunity for something to break.

Secondly, perhaps declining sales since 2001 has more to do with the product than the technology. What year did cRAP music replace the top forty?
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Independents: Sieze the Day!  P. Douglas | 02/27/07
Steve Job's transparent gesture  John Zern | 02/27/07
Um hasn't Steve Jobs been on record for a very long time  Laff | 02/28/07
When iTunes first launched....  tic swayback | 02/28/07
Deeds, not words  John Zern | 02/28/07
Money where mouth is  tic swayback | 02/28/07
Do we know every detail of Appl'e's contract with the Music Industry?  Laff | 02/28/07
How would that affect movies?  tic swayback | 02/28/07
Don't know about your second point and I admit I'm curious.  Laff | 02/28/07
Cleanup and change heart  Patanjali | 02/27/07
Two Things  marlinj@... | 02/27/07
Quite true - overall music quality has been steadily declining  archerjoe | 02/28/07
HAHA!!! Priceless quote!!!  NonZealot | 02/27/07
NonZealot...  MacVet | 02/27/07
But I can see his point  John Zern | 02/27/07
Re: NonZealot...  999ad@... | 02/28/07
Your priceless quote is BS  mrlinux | 02/27/07
uh...oh!  Linux Geek | 02/28/07
hypocrisy...  mrlinux | 02/28/07
One thing to consider  TripleII | 02/27/07
iPod Borg  KrUshPruF | 02/28/07
right over your head.  shraven | 03/01/07
Consumers have spoken, DRM is dead as a business model.  TripleII | 02/27/07
Couldnt have said it better.!!!!  mrlinux | 02/28/07
Bad news guys  tic swayback | 02/28/07
Look at it this way fella's  Laff | 02/28/07
"There's more opportunities to monetize the music."  ejhonda | 02/28/07
Conference probably started  Boot_Agnostic | 02/28/07
Sony's technological solutions  GrumpyOldMan | 02/28/07
A hundred years ago...  Henry Miller | 02/28/07
Record companies still don't get it  jtg61 | 02/28/07
The answer is right under their noses...  BitTwiddler | 02/28/07
the brilliant idiot  shraven | 02/28/07
Music companies already have the best marketing...  Anton Philidor | 02/28/07
Music DRM and Revenue  Jaytmoon | 02/28/07
Well-deserved losses  AES2 | 02/28/07
I'm late to the party so this probably won't get read but...  Beat a Dead Horse | 03/01/07

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