Members Geoff Grace Posted February 9, 2007 Members Share Posted February 9, 2007 Something's brewing: First: Apple announces iPhone, hints at Beatles content deal Second: Apple, Beatles end trademark dispute Third: Steve Jobs Asks Record Labels To Abolish DRM ...And Now This: EMI in talks to sell unprotected MP3s Connect the dots. Best, Geoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members alphajerk Posted February 9, 2007 Members Share Posted February 9, 2007 like they will give up DRM... EMI already sells unprotected MP3s by way of CD's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tradivoro1 Posted February 9, 2007 Members Share Posted February 9, 2007 I hope that when they finally decide to let beatles content be available in mp3 format and streaming, that they just won't limit themselves to itunes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Billster Posted February 9, 2007 Members Share Posted February 9, 2007 The U2 thing was a success - Beatles edition iPod? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members spokenward Posted February 9, 2007 Members Share Posted February 9, 2007 EMI Group PLC has been an acquisition target, but the bidding entities that could swing the deal were other record companies with antitrust problems. Apple could be thought of as a record company without an antitrust entanglement. Does that make it a dot, Geoff? There have been other candidates in the recent past that would make good strategic partners for an Apple bid. actually these guys in the link aren't that big anymore in the scheme of things, but some Chinese telecommunications partner would be pretty smart. Old media will never resolve piracy issues in China, so a telecommunications partner is needed to produce revenue from the next world media market.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tedster Posted February 9, 2007 Members Share Posted February 9, 2007 Yellow Submersible iPods? Oh, look, I've got a hole in me pocket... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Billster Posted February 9, 2007 Members Share Posted February 9, 2007 EMI Group PLC has been an acquisition target, but the bidding entities that could swing the deal were other record companies with antitrust problems. Apple could be thought of as a record company without an antitrust entanglement. Does that make it a dot, Geoff? There have been other candidates in the recent past that would make good strategic partners for an Apple bid. actually these guys in the link aren't that big anymore in the scheme of things, but some Chinese telecommunications partner would be pretty smart. Old media will never resolve piracy issues in China, so a telecommunications partner is needed to produce revenue from the next world media market.. Jobs is on the Disney Board of Directors because of the Pixar acquisition... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BOOKUMDANO Posted February 9, 2007 Members Share Posted February 9, 2007 It sounds reasonable to me that EMI will be among the first to let go of drm. Drm is a financial drag on a company. I respect any company's ownership position, but I can also see where the numbers may not be making sense when crunching the cost of drm implementation vs. profit received over the past few years. I can see drm going bye-bye eventually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members elsongs Posted February 10, 2007 Members Share Posted February 10, 2007 Something's brewing: First: Apple announces iPhone, hints at Beatles content deal Second: Apple, Beatles end trademark dispute Third: Steve Jobs Asks Record Labels To Abolish DRM ...And Now This: EMI in talks to sell unprotected MP3s Connect the dots. Best, Geoff "I'm a Mac." "And I'm a PC" "And I'm Paul McCartney..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members philbo Posted February 10, 2007 Members Share Posted February 10, 2007 Yellow Submersible iPods?Oh, look, I've got a hole in me pocket... (all together now) we all live in a yellow submersible ipod, yellow submersible ipod, yellow submersible ipod..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted February 10, 2007 Members Share Posted February 10, 2007 EMI Group PLC has been an acquisition target, but the bidding entities that could swing the deal were other record companies with antitrust problems. Apple could be thought of as a record company without an antitrust entanglement. Does that make it a dot, Geoff? There have been other candidates in the recent past that would make good strategic partners for an Apple bid. actually these guys in the link aren't that big anymore in the scheme of things, but some Chinese telecommunications partner would be pretty smart. Old media will never resolve piracy issues in China, so a telecommunications partner is needed to produce revenue from the next world media market.. Looks like they'd be looking to extend even MORE control through their effective market franchise if they did that. It would at the very least, raise eyebrows, I think. (Still, anti-trust types might view it as preferable to a further consolidation of what used to be the "seven sisters" of organized cri... er, I mean the record biz.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members spokenward Posted February 10, 2007 Members Share Posted February 10, 2007 I was thinking that this was a wacky notion, but Apple has got a substantial cash hoard. They set up a capital management company last year: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2006/tc20060405_452855.htm EMI has irreplaceable catalog. They jettisoned two expensive executives in January (a CEO and a Vice Chairman). The CEO, Alain Levy, was previously released by Polygram just before they were acquired by Universal. The "sisters/schwestern/zusters" have been passing away since the late 90's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cry Logic Posted February 10, 2007 Members Share Posted February 10, 2007 like they will give up DRM... Oh but they will ... DRM is already dead..... Check out Cringelys' take on it here..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cry Logic Posted February 10, 2007 Members Share Posted February 10, 2007 I hope that when they finally decide to let beatles content be available in mp3 format and streaming, that they just won't limit themselves to itunes... hehehe Beatles content has been available in MP3 format for years now.... You just have to know where to look...... Actually the new upcoming format is flac... Now that broadband is more common, the bitTorrent trackers are showing more and more music in flac format ... Because it's a lossless format, it reduces a file to approx 50% of the equivalent wav..... with no loss in quality.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members alphajerk Posted February 11, 2007 Members Share Posted February 11, 2007 hehehe Beatles content has been available in MP3 format for years now.... You just have to know where to look...... im trying to find something that ISNT available these days. one of the saddest things i saw recently was PSP's VW2 was released as a crack the DAY i got an email from PSP announcing it was available for purchase. actually my statement isnt all that true... lots of stuff isnt available, but its obscure things i cant buy in stores either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members steadyb Posted February 11, 2007 Members Share Posted February 11, 2007 I thought this thread was about beer. ...or coffee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Antman261 Posted February 11, 2007 Members Share Posted February 11, 2007 Actually the new upcoming format is flac...Now that broadband is more common, thebitTorrent trackers are showing more and more music in flac format ...Because it's a lossless format, it reduces a file to approx 50% of the equivalent wav..... with no loss in quality.... Because it's truely compression rather then omission like an mp3. Right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members spokenward Posted February 11, 2007 Members Share Posted February 11, 2007 I thought this thread was about beer. ...or coffee. ...and instead of that you find busybody speculation about due diligence and catered vegetarian lunches. which reminds me, Capitol and Virgin were rolled together in January and the CFO who would have worked with Levy at Polygram didn't follow Levy out the door. There might be something going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Geoff Grace Posted February 11, 2007 Author Members Share Posted February 11, 2007 I thought this thread was about beer. ...or coffee. What makes you think it's not? Best, Geoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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