with no DRM<\/em>. That last bit is the important part. I’ve not been a buyer at Apple’s online store, which itself added some DRM-free tracks from select companies a couple months ago. Then, this week, Microsoft *blink, blink* announces that it’s going to start selling DRM-free music, too, for all those lucky Zune owners out there.<\/p>\nI know there have been places out there that’ve been selling DRM-free music for years now. But Amazon and MSFT coming around marks a real change in the landscape, I think. If not a death knell for the traditional music industry, at least a serious illness knell (but then we all know the music industry has been seriously ill for decades, in one way or another).<\/p>\n
Ava knows what CDs are, but I doubt she’ll ever buy one. I certainly won’t encourage her to buy any. In the time it takes to rip the layers of plastic wrap off a new disc, she could be halfway through listening to whatever album she’s interested in. Then again, maybe she won’t be interested in music at all. Man, that would be sad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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