Thought the podcast was good and he brought up some good point but man, what a chatty kathy!

Great episode! However, I totally disagree with Ian Rogers about a couple things: 1) Most CD's these days DO contain DRM. 2) With most CD's you CAN'T (without getting around the DRM) copy, rip, etc. media off that CD. 3) The reason most people would rather own music is because what happens when the music industry raises licensing costs? And the cost for Yahoo Music jumps up a bunch... and people decide that it's no longer worth the money. All the money they paid in subscriptions for the music is lost, because they no longer have access to that music. The reason why people want to own music, is because they do not trust the greedy record industry. 4) If someone deleted my MP3 collection at home, it would be the last mistake that person ever made. I have spend hours organizing, riping, and dealing with DRM to get my music collection in order.

I totally agree with Blue. While I appreciate what this guy had to say, I don't think he was really even behind his words.

Tell me you would rather loose the mp3 collection of tracks that you downloaded and ripped from CDs over your physical CDs that you bought. And he clearly states that if you don't want to worry about licencing and subscription, buy the CD. I think most CDs do NOT have DRM. Your are only saying that because of all of the publicity around the Sony rootkit fiasco that was on a handfull of CDs. Wait until you hear his other talk.

Interesting interview. What I thought during Ian talking about money pumped into the "ecosystem" infinitely (instead only one time like for iTunes) is that this money doesn't require the music industry to change much. The same old monopoly can go on and on thanks to the help of subscription services. I believe it requires much more legal bodies to cover a subscription services compared to a one timer. Not only users have to pay a lifelong but also labels have to exist a lifelong to let this ecosystem exist. That's a lifelong monopoly apparatus and who knows if that's more helpful for artists. I doubt it.

Funny, I wasn't aware that this interview is like 2 years old. Did you refresh your feed? Stupid iTunes...