From Kevin Hunt, Chicago Tribune:
An agreement in October between Olive Media and MusicGiants envisions a vastly different consumption of digital music, where owners of media servers (like Olive's) download CD-quality music files (like MusicGiants') that are also freed from the restraints of Digital Rights Management.
Olive, a San Francisco company, started selling German-made music servers a couple of years ago but its partnership with MusicGiants arrives as a dramatic counterpoint to the iTunes formula. It's a niche now, maybe forever, because what's good for Apple is also good for the major music companies, who would rather sell low-quality, encrypted music files. It's called protecting their investment.
Unless, that is, people demand something better. For now, MusicGiants attracts fans of unencrypted, hi-res jazz (Concord Music Group), classical (Naxos), blues (Alligator) and indies (Razor & Tie). Pop, as in the most popular music in the United States, is a no-show other than the Paul McCartney-led downloads from the EMI catalog.
From Kevin Hunt, Chicago Tribune:
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