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The two huge music related events from today

Sometimes I hate how much I write about Apple here, so I'll get that one out of the way first. Steve Jobs wrote an open letter to the music industry asking them to abandon DRM. While I often think Jobs is full of, um, "great salesmanship", his letter is a lengthy dose of common sense in an industry full of saber rattling and hyperbole. Here is a choice quote from the letter:

Why would the big four music companies agree to let Apple and others distribute their music without using DRM systems to protect it? The simplest answer is because DRMs haven’t worked, and may never work, to halt music piracy. Though the big four music companies require that all their music sold online be protected with DRMs, these same music companies continue to sell billions of CDs a year which contain completely unprotected music. That’s right! No DRM system was ever developed for the CD, so all the music distributed on CDs can be easily uploaded to the Internet, then (illegally) downloaded and played on any computer or player.

It will be interesting to see how the Big 4 and iTunes (and the rest of the online music industry), who are already facing pressure from several European nations to ditch DRM, respond. Jobs basically threw down the gauntlet and it is up to the labels to either go along with Apple or look really, really evil. Which as you know they seem to have no problem doing.

Speaking of the major labels, Warner Bros. announced a partnership with Last.fm. In the long run I think this might be the bigger piece of news of the two. Basically starting this week WB is going to open up its entire catalog of music for streaming from Last.fm. The details are pretty scarce so far, but it seems like if you are a paying subscriber (the best $3 you will ever spend) you will be able to stream any Warner Brothers music in the last.fm player whenever you want. I have a hard time believing that I haven't missed something here because that is an amazing bargain, especially if the other labels follow. Could this be the beginning of a free streaming version of iTunes? If so, what does it mean for the other subscription-based services like Napster and Yahoo Music?

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