{"id":681,"date":"2007-04-29T23:28:54","date_gmt":"2007-04-30T04:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/index.php\/warner-music-wake-up-call-defectivebydesignorg\/"},"modified":"2007-04-29T23:29:32","modified_gmt":"2007-04-30T04:29:32","slug":"warner-music-wake-up-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/warner-music-wake-up-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner music needs a wake up call"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Recent weeks have brought major changes in the music industry and a major victory in our battle against DRM. First Steve Jobs pledged to drop DRM if major labels would let him. We held his feet to the fire with over six thousand people signing an open letter to Jobs asking him to back his pledge! Apple and EMI then announced that the iTunes Music Store would sell EMI tracks without DRM, and this has been followed by similar announcements from other online music stores and retailers.<\/p>\n<p>Other labels have publicly stated that they will maintain DRM and have criticized Apple and EMI, but this week brought news that Universal may be opening up some of their catalog to DRM free sales.<\/p>\n<p>Warner Music, one of the Big Four labels, hasn&#8217;t budged in their opposition. After the EMI announcement they even suggested a hostile takeover of EMI to prevent the music from becoming available without DRM. Just this week Warner filed a lawsuit against AnywhereCD.com to stop them from distributing MP3s of Warner&#8217;s music to customers who buy the CD.<\/p>\n<p>We think that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defectivebydesign.org\/actions\/warner_music_wake_up_call\">Warner needs a wake up call<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defectivebydesign.org\/\">DefectiveByDesign.org<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defectivebydesign.org\/actions\/warner_music_wake_up_call\">Warner Music Wake Up Call<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent weeks have brought major changes in the music industry and a major victory in our battle against DRM. First Steve Jobs pledged to drop DRM if major labels would let him. 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