Free(as in speech)dom!
As an artist whose music appears on Napster, you would think that somebody, somewhere, would have mentioned this to me. (Link via boing boing) Somebody, like, say, the company I pay to put my music on Napster. The same one that recently notified me that I may, in fact, have had my royalties collected without permission by SoundExchange, and that it was a good thing.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Napster Inc. begins selling MP3s Tuesday, a move the online music service hopes will lure iPod users and turn around Napster’s sliding fortunes.The company is the latest to make the switch to the unrestricted file format, which makes it music tracks compatible with virtually any music player or other device.
Of course, I think it’s a great thing that Napster now sells my tracks DRM-free. I think DRM-free is the only way to go in digital downloads.
Still, don’cha think it would have been nice to be, y’know, notified?