My feed-reader picked up an interesting snippet of info the other day. Sony BMG, (Sony and BMG combined music arm) are to drop DRM protection on all music distributed from their back catalogue. Fantastic news then for music lovers everywhere! As is so often the case, now a major label has annouced this bold step (and yes it is bold for the music industry), others will surely follow suit.
Does this mean that Sony have rethought their strategy with regard to online sales, or is it merely acceptance of the inevitable? Either way, I admire the thought behind this, and the lead they have taken, especially given sony's dreadful record in bygone days for hounding down all those "evil pirates" when in fact, it was the DRM software causing the problem.
Anyway, let bygones be bygones. I can't help but think there's some character like PSD jumping for joy somewhere inside Sony's corporate wall, in fact i'm sure of it.
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