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InfoWorld: Weaning Oneself from the Proprietary Nipple

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Matt Asay
Dec 8, 2006

“Digital music sales seem to have peaked, as Nick Carr
highlights on his blog, and as the WSJ recently reported. For this
reason, EMI is beginning to experiment with non-DRM protected music
files: MP3s.

“For many in the music business, the sky is about to fall. Or so
they think. ‘Why will anyone buy our wares if we don’t force them
to do so by preventing copying…?!?'”


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