More startling news from the music industry. Now we have former industry execs saying

“They’re doing it anyway,” says Ted Cohen, former EMI Music Group digital executive and now founding partner of consulting firm TAG Strategic. “There’s a chance to monetize this behavior.”

I guess the light bulb finally went on somewhere. So many outside the industry have been saying this for years. It took awhile but I’m glad we may be exiting the dark years of suing grandmothers over copyrighted music. This article focuses mostly on music but I truly hope the movie and television folks also get the message. The music business may just save itself yet. Now how about a fair license for music podcasters?

Wow, amazing news about the potential for the music industry to adopt a non-DRM strategy. This would be a huge win the consumers and probably the industry as well. Apple should be a little worried, however, as their current lock on the digital music business would be compromised. I would still love my iPod but I would love the chance to buy music from a variety of sources and at more competitive prices. Still one big problem for competing device vendors, all that iTunes music already purchased still won’t play on anything but an iPod.