There’s an old article on BusinessWorld on the Indian recording industry’s plans for digital music. What’s interesting is that in the two years since the article was written, most of the schemes came to nothing, and T-Series and Indiatimes are the only vendors today (with T-Series being the only one shipping actual CDs of MP3s). Indians love MP3s, since they are good value over CDs (which are getting cheaper too, but are still in the Rs 350-500 range). And slow cable/DSL penetration ensures that downloads remain a very minor problem to most producers — downloading MP3s over dialup doesn’t make sense when local calls are not free. Also, Indian music producers get hit by piracy (not the digital kind, but the real bricks-and-mortar kind) anyway, so I think they will be realistic enough to admit that RIAA-style hard lines won’t work here. Thankfully, the T-Series and Indiatimes examples seem to indicate the the Indian recording industry sees an opportunity, and not a threat, in digital music.