SONY SURRENDER

While any new music service is touted as being the one which will stop iTunes from stomping on everything in its path, nothing seems capable of unseating iTunes as the world's first chocie for digital music.

In Japan, Sony had been attempting to frustrate Apple's empire building by refusing to licence its catalogue to them; the theory being that people would shun iTunes. It didn't work; now, Sony is belatedly scrambling to get its back catalogue onto the Apple network. But who could have forseen that the only people who'd be hurt by their not being on there at launch were their own artists? (Answer: everyone except music industry executives, it seems)

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