"In the end you get what you pay for. I won't spend another dime paying engineers to build false control, making listening to music harder for music-lovers. I will put all of my energy into making it easier and making the experience better.
"Music in the format that people actually want it in, with a Web-based experience that's simple and works with any device. I bought tracks from Amazon, downloaded them, sync'd them to my new iPod Nano, and had them playing in my home audio system in less than five minutes. PRAISE JESUS. It only took 8 years.
"History tells us: convenience wins, hubris loses. 'Who is going to want a shitty quality LP when these 78s sound so good? Who wants a hissy cassette when they have an awesome quadrophonic system? Who wants digitized music on discs now that we have Dolby on our cassettes? Who wants to listen to compressed audio on their computers?' ANSWER: EVERYONE. Convenience wins, hubris loses."
–Ian Rogers, Yahoo! Music's VP of Product Development addressed music industry types on the worthlessness of DRM copy-protection technology.
–Source: fistfulayen.com/blog
This article appears in Oct 17-23, 2007.