{"id":573,"date":"2002-06-12T05:54:29","date_gmt":"2002-06-12T19:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/06\/12\/music-industry-wakes-up\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T09:00:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T17:00:10","slug":"music-industry-wakes-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/06\/12\/music-industry-wakes-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Music industry wakes up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16111,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.sunspot.net\\\/la-fi-universal12jun12.story&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.baltimoresun.com\\\/la-fi-universal12jun12.story&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s about time some of the music companies started realizing that, cliched as the phrase may be, &#8220;if you can&#8217;t beat &#8217;em &#8212; join &#8217;em!&#8221; According to a story in the LA Times, Universal and Sony will be offering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunspot.net\/la-fi-universal12jun12.story\" title=\"Baltimore Sun: Net Music That's a Steal - but Not Stolen\">low-cost, <em>unencrypted<\/em> music downloads<\/a> over the &#8216;net. Individual tracks for 99 cents, albums for $9.99 &#8212; and they can be freely (and legally) burned to CD once they&#8217;re downloaded. Hopefully it will work well enough that the other studios will follow suit&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a story in the LA Times, Universal and Sony will be offering low-cost, unencrypted music downloads over the &#8216;net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2046,2035],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-music","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}