Creative Friday

I don’t normally post twice in one day but this article on Ars was too damn good to pass up.

At the end of the session the EMI bosses thanked them for their comments and told them to help themselves to a big pile of CDs sitting on a table. But none of the teens took any of the CDs, even though they were free. “That was the moment we realised the game was completely up,” says a person who was there.

It gives me so much satisfaction to hear that. I’m a 30-something, not a teen, but I haven’t bought a physical CD in years. I own too many DRM’d tracks from iTunes but I haven’t bought a regular iTunes track since they went to iTunes Plus. With iTunes Plus and Amazon MP3, I’m on cloud nine.