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Submission + - EMI to offer DRM-free music in iTunes

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beat.bolli
beat.bolli writes: "According to the press release, EMI music and Apple have agreed to sell music sans DRM. Not without a catch: The DRM-less music will be $1.29 but have "twice the sound quality of existing downloads", which are still available for $0.99."
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Submission + - EMI DRM Free - confirmed

Submitted by rockclimber
rockclimber writes: EMI has, as the first mayor Label to do so, confirmed , to sell its music DRM free. First store to offer tracks will be itunes Music Store, for 1.29$ for 256k AAC-Tracks. Upgrades from 128 DRM to 256 unencumbered are 30 cents. Is the DRM Nightmare finally over?
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Submission + - Apple and EMI drop DRMs!

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: "In a press conference scheduled today at 1:00 p.m (London), EMI Group's Eric Nicoli and Apple's Steve Jobs announced they will start providing EMI's music without DRMs through the iTunes Store. [...] New DRM-Free and 256Kbit quality versions of the downloads will be made available alongside current DRM'd downloads. They will cost $1.29 per song while albums will remain at the same price."
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Submission + - Apple, EMI offer higher-quality DRM free downloads

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Pirogoeth
Pirogoeth writes: "Apple and EMI announced at an event on Monday that EMI's entire music and video catalog will be available in May without any digital rights management protection. The two companies will also offer higher quality sound files of songs, but the songs will come at a higher price. Unprotected albums will cost $1.29 per song, and previous downloads can be upgraded to the new format for $0.30/song. Prices for full albums will remain the same."
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Submission + - Apple & EMI offer DRM free music

Submitted by stupid_is
stupid_is writes: Following on from the previous story, it's being reported by the BBC that Apple and EMI are partnering with the result being that users can purchase DRM-free versions of the EMI catalogue on iTunes. The downside is that this "premium" content will cost an additional 30c per track, making it $1.29 per track. There will be the added bonus that the downloaded tracks will be twice the sound quality as before.

EMI's press release can be read here
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Submission + - EMI to Drop DRM on All Tracks on iTunes by May

Submitted by
FredBenenson
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.""

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