[Community] Gizmodo: "Deutsche Grammophon Shows How Digital Music Stores Should Really Work"

[J.C. De Martin]

un'altra offerta musicale online, da parte
di una Major, senza DRM.

juan carlos

"Deutsche Grammophon Shows How Digital Music Stores Should Really Work"
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/drm-freedom/deutsche-grammophon-shows-how-digital-music-stores-should-really-work-328356.php 


Deutsche Grammophon has opened an online digital music shop 
(http://www.dgwebshop.com/) and although most people think about 
invading Poland when they listen to Wagner, the classical music label is 
showing all those punks and hippies from Apple and Microsoft how to do a 
proper online music store:

• First, their store is international. You can buy from anywhere in the 
planet with no stupid geographic limits.
• Second, they are not only publishing their current massive catalog, 
but reviving out-of-print recording as exclusive downloads. A hundred of 
them are available now and a thousand will be in the next weeks after 
launch.
• And finally, the music is all DRM-free (YES!) so it can play in the 
iPod, Zune or preferred MP3-compatible player.

Prices are $1.29 for a full track (that's lots of music in the classical 
music world) to $11.99 for an album, which often come with PDF booklets 
covering the materials, like actual CD editions do. Unfortunately for 
classical music maniacs, the tracks encoded in MP3 format. Fortunately, 
they come beautifully encoded at 320kbps, so most people except 
Pear-cable buyers won't be able to tell the difference.

And the even-more-shocking news: Deutsche Grammophon is owned by, hold 
on to your seats, Universal. Daa-daa-duuum! indeed. [Deutsche Grammophon 
via Create Digital Music]