Inside Music MediaJerry Del Colliano

The Microsoft Chairman said that consumers should just buy CDs and rip them onto their mobile music devices. Sound idea. It gets around digital rights management (DRM) which will never fly with the music buying public and will only serve to depress online profits until labels give it up. Perhaps Gates was prompted to make his comment in light of a Forrester research study that alleged Apple iTunes sales were down. Forrester has since modified their dire projections and blamed it on too small a sample size. One thing they are correct about. DRM is hurting digital music sales. And the average amount of new music per iPod owner is only&hellip