mystocks, Please let me comment on a couple of points from what you posted:
"EMI also said it was not working with First 4 Internet, the UK company that created the copy-restriction software for Sony, although it is trialling other content-protection software.
"EMI is not using First 4 Internet technology. We recently completed a trial of three content-protection technologies (Macrovision's CDS300, SunnComm's MediaMax & SonyDADC's key2audioXS), and First 4 Internet's technology was not one of those tested," said the spokesman.
Universal Music Group was unable to provide comment in time for this article."
From what I have previously posted in regards to First4 "crashing & burning", as you can see, it is not even a consideration at EMI. I will tell you, when comparing CDS300, MediaMax & key2audioXS........MediaMax is tops. As far as Universal Music Group - Larry Kenswil, President of UMG eLabs is well aware of MediaMax, Well aware of EMI's analysis and CERTAINLY well aware of the VERY POSITIVE results beung experienced at BMG (as well as aware of Sony's First4 problems).