Report From EMX – The Entertainment Media Expo

I just got back from day one of EMX – The Entertainment Media Expo.  Its a well run smaller convention for the folks who manufacture and package CDs and DVDs. And throughout it all I couldn’t help how much longer these folks would be in business.

EMX acknowledged the problems P2P causes for their industry with a kick off speech from Lawrence Lessig the libertarian author of Free Culture who says that "big media uses technology and  the law to lock down culture and control creativity".  But then it was right back to the lawyers and old school thinking.

I saw some very creative packaging from AGIMedia and others, but who needs (or wants to pay for) a physical CD or DVD when you can download it for free.  Even if you decide to pay; you’ll get it cheaper and faster.

Thanks to EMX for the free pass.  Hope to see you again next year…