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Nashville City Paper The 'Wal-Marting' of CDs

"Each time I talk with Jack, I learn something new.

Case in point: Jack says Wal-Mart, the 800-pound gorilla of the retail market, has apparently circulated a memo to the music industry that they will sell compact discs only in the $8 to $10 price range."

"You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. People won't go back to $17 CD's, and Wal-Mart recognizes that."

SFGate Wal-Mart wades into music battle : New online service to beat rivals' prices
"Retailing giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. joined the increasingly competitive online music industry on Thursday when it unveiled a service it is now testing that would undercut prices of Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store and other major rivals."

"Brisbane's Walmart.com, the online commerce division for the Arkansas retail chain, began testing a service called Music Downloads, which sells downloadable songs for 88 cents per track or $9.44 per album."

Lawrence Lessig WalMart's way to the future
"So, the "Rip,Mix,Burn" culture has now been cancelled. Want to sync a song with the home movie of your kid? You can't. You've promised you won't. Want to display a slide show of pictures taken at Christmas? you can't. You've promised you won't. Any derivative use if banned by this agreement (and by the code built into WM9) -- and remember, if you use a tool to crack those protections, you've violated the DMCA."

"What's happening with this download world is that the "rights" people have with music are now to be defined by licenses. Long before we have any useful litigation about the fair use rights associated with music, the licenses will define that you have only the right to play the music, and only the right to burn it 10 times. Anything more -- for any reuse, mixing, transforming, even for noncommercial use -- is not your "right.""

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