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Submission + - Apple and EMI partner on DRM-free music

Submitted by nichropante on Monday April 02, 2007 @08:47AM

nichropante writes: From CNET: In a ground-shattering announcement given in London today from Apple, it has been confirmed that EMI will sell all of it's content on Apple's iTunes Store without DRM! This is a truly phenomenal landmark in the war on digital rights management and its withering grasp around the necks of music fans.

Submission + - EMI to Drop DRM on All Tracks on iTunes by May

Submitted by

FredBenenson

on Monday April 02, 2007 @08:46AM

FredBenenson writes: "Free Culture @ NYU (who staged the first American protests against DRM) confirms that EMI is dropping DRM from their entire catalog. EMI tracks with no DRM (Mp3) will cost $1.29 from iTunes and will also be available in other formats (AAC and WMA), but all EMI music videos will also be available on the iTunes Store DRM-free with no change in price. iTunes will continue to offer consumers the ability to pay $0.99/0.99/£0.79 for standard sound quality tracks with DRM still applied. Complete albums from EMI Music artists purchased on the iTunes Store will automatically be sold at the higher sound quality and DRM-free, with no change in the price. At a live press conference in London Steve Jobs mused that "We estimate that well over half of iTunes tracks will be DRM free by the end of the year.""

Submission + - DRMless EMI catalog on iTunes

Submitted by apple fanboi on Monday April 02, 2007 @08:44AM

apple fanboi writes: EMI anounces full DRMless catalog on iTunes, 256kbps AAC, from May. Songs go for 1.30$/, albums for 9.99$/. You can still buy DRM'd versions at old price, and upgrade songs already purchased for 0.30$/. http://www.emigroup.com/Press/2007/press18.htm

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