Because old business models won’t change, eMusic now looks broken by the very people who deemed it in need of protection. I suppose I’ll hang on till next month, collect my sorry-about-this bonus, and then cancel.
— From Russell Brown’s backgrounder on eMusic’s new pricing regime, from an Australasian perspective. Short story: so it can deliver Sony’s back catalogue to the US, Canada and the EU, eMusic has roughly doubled the price of its tracks, leaving users outside those territories subsidising a product they can’t buy. I’ll stay for a bit to see how it pans out, but this does not look like a particularly fair deal.
