The End of The World As Labels Know It

This generation of music fans is no fan of digital rights management. Everyone knows it but the major labels continue to tread water before they drown in their own miscalulation. Now, we're beginning to see signs of a change -- a very small change -- in the attitude of at least one label. EMI is offering Norah Jones' Thinking About You and Relient K's Must Have Done Something Right for 99 cents each as MP3 downloads from Yahoo. It's hard to say how much of this little toe in the water is to test the efficacy of selling music without DRM or how much is designed to get under Apple's skin. The labels have a hate-hate relationship with&hellip