Wal-Mart is our DRM friend?
Dec. 3rd, 2007 12:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneWal-Mart orders ALL of its online store music vendors to provide plain MP3s!
The 800 pound gorilla has spoken!
There is an interesting, if somewhat frightening, quote in the article: "Though Wal-Mart maintains a modest 2% market share in the digital download arena, its market share for physical CDs is considerably larger: about 22%, Billboard estimates."
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/12/wal-mart-kills.html
http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i6efb69eb2243cb842be35f0eab40082d
EDIT: the Slashdot thread hit after I posted this: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/03/235241
The 800 pound gorilla has spoken!
There is an interesting, if somewhat frightening, quote in the article: "Though Wal-Mart maintains a modest 2% market share in the digital download arena, its market share for physical CDs is considerably larger: about 22%, Billboard estimates."
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/12/wal-mart-kills.html
http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i6efb69eb2243cb842be35f0eab40082d
EDIT: the Slashdot thread hit after I posted this: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/03/235241
