I have to say, I'm one of the people that bought a new iphone (my first) and regret it a little for a few reasons, one of which is Apple's walled garden.

Great response from Gerd on McGuinness' comments at MIDEM

I don't buy much from the iTunes store anymore. I don't like the DRM because I inevitably want to share the music I buy with friends from time to time. My music shopping habits also don't include physical CDs much. I buy my digital files from Amazon, Blee

I used to buy vinyl. Today, if you do put out a record on a label, traditionally, most people are going to hear it via a leak that happens two weeks — if not two months — before it comes out.

Universal Music Group has announced that the company is going to test selling DRM-free music to consumers in order to assess the market. It's a strange test, however; the company won't be hawking DRM-free music at Apple's iTunes Store, at least at first.

Dump the protection increase the sales

Amazon.com to Launch DRM-Free MP3 Music Download Store with Songs and Albums from EMI Music and More Than 12,000 Other Labels

Ty Roberts, CTO of Gracenote, made the claim this week that the music industry was "about to cave in the next six months" on the issue of DRM, at least when it comes to downloads.

Who's afraid of user-generated content? According to data collected for Accenture's annual survey of senior media executives, user-generated content is one of the biggest threats that traditional media companies face in the next few years.

Global music sales will drop to $23 billion in 2009, just over half of 1997's $45 billion and down 16 percent from 2006. The biggest reason for the steep decline is a drop in CD sales

Apple is not the “Microsoft of digital music”, and everyone ought to stop trying to view their actions as though they were.

The discussions at a music conference here Tuesday started with an all-around bashing of Apple CEO Steve Jobs before moving to the plethora of issues plaguing the music industry.

In its new report, "Navigating the Media Divide," IBM says that mainstream media companies need to loosen their grip on proprietary content in order to capture young, tech-savvy consumers who have fueled the enormous growth of YouTube and other sites buil

The events of the past few weeks point to an acceleration of change that promises to make 2007 a landmark year in the music industry.

Three digital music veterans have launched a stealth startup and are close to unveiling both a new portable media player and what they're calling an "internet radio ecosystem," Wired News has learned.

With global music sales down for a seventh straight year, the talk at an annual industry meeting in Cannes, France, has become heated over how to develop digital sales against competition from the dreaded F word -- free.

This conference on the digital music business got off to a bang here in Cannes this morning when the opening-session discussion broke into a tense and sometimes bitchy disagreement about DRM between representatives from music, movie and electronics indust

For almost ten years now I have argued that digital rights management has little to do with piracy, but that is instead a carefully plotted ruse to undercut fair use and then create new revenue streams where there were previously none.

DRM issue will get more complicated as digital downloads move beyond music to TV and films

Its official, the hacker known only as Muslix64 has successfully cracked the copy protection on HD-DVD called AACS.

If you're wondering where the digital music business is headed, you could do worse than to look up Bob Kohn.

The anti-digital rights management (DRM) bandwagon is getting more crowded by the day. Even some major-label executives are pushing for the right to sell digital downloads as unprotected MP3s.

Wow, some very educational and spirited debate going on here.

Whomever figured out how to do music without DRM and sell the labels on it is gonna be rich!

If you can weed through the crap, this Slashdot thread is pretty good

Is digital TV unrealistic?

A look at Yahoo Music from the inside