Many companies in corporate America spend a lifetime fighting to get to that upper eschelon, the elite section where multi-billion dollar companies hang out and do business. eMusic was a favorite by many indie music fans for the low prices, great feature set, and lack of any major music labels. It seems greed is again the downfall of the great. In record time, eMusic has gone from a much loved company to one that is quickly becoming one of the most hated. So what exactly is the new low eMobile has stooped to?
It used to be in the good ‘ol days (read: the last couple of years) if you like online music free of cancer (again…read: DRM), as well as indie music, eMusic was your one stop shop. They were the pioneers of DRM free music long before other larger online music stores followed suit. Even though eMusic wasn’t as big as other online music stores, the customers agian loved the large selection of indie music as well as lower priced DRM free music. Apparently eMusic no longer cares about their audience as they have pulled Sony on board and raised prices – two things that are in fact pissing off a lot of users. While the two incidents may not be involved, announcing the two events together will forever merge them, no matter how hard either companies PR team denies. While we all know how anti-consumer and asinine Sony can be, do you think we are beginning to see a rougher image of eMusic starting to appear? How would you have handled the situation? Would you have announced the new changes separately? Or would you have told Sony to F off all together?
Source: http://techdirt.com/articles/20090602/2250355103.shtml
**Source: Tech Dirt
