Sharing music: a legitimate consumer behavior? That's what I pick-up in this answer that Amazon's Jeff Bezos gave SmartMoney in an interview published yesterday:
SM: Music downloads are available through your Amazon mp3 store. Is there room for more price competition with Apple, the market leader?
Bezos: We are already heavily competing. Apple sells a song at 99 cents, versus our 89 cents. Plus ours are DRM [digital rights management]-free, so that they can be shared. We are also deeply discounting albums through our "Daily Deals."
I mean, although we have heard the voices of many pro-sharing activists on the Web for years, it is not often that you see music sharing sanctioned on the record by the CEO of a company that has deals with music labels at the foundation of its online music sales business.
Thank you Jeff Bezos for sparing us the usual hypocrisy on the subject matter. I see this as a change of business/political attitude in the industry, which bodes well for the future of online sharing being recognized as legitimate.
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