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Paul McCartney Releases Album As DRM-Free Download 292

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @04:17AM from the getting-it dept.

Medieval Cow writes "Sir Paul McCartney has a side project called The Fireman and he's just released their new album, Electric Arguments, as a digital download. Why this is of interest to this community is that he released it 100% DRM-free. You can purchase just the digital files, or if you purchase a physical CD or vinyl copy, you are also given access to the digital download. Not only that, but the download is available in 320-kbps MP3, Apple Lossless, or even FLAC format. If you're interested in trying before you buy, you can listen to the entire album in a Flash player on the main page of the site. It's so nice to see a big musician who gets it. Bravo, Sir Paul!"

Comment Re:Uhh..okay? Library with no money? (Score 0) 277

by AWxSlashdot on Wednesday January 19, 2005 @05:27AM (#11406200) Attached to: German Library Allowed To Crack Copy Protection

IMHO, this is not about legit copy but about storage. The library must have a unique kind of storage format for digital content. With protected content, with SO many standards, they might need to adapt theit searching/viewing/indexing tools.
As new copy-protection standards emerge everyday (and I don't know if they are all available as a SDK to interface with another program) and as I think the library to not want to hire fulltime developpers to integrate every single API (if it exists and can be integrated - think about concurrent access, etc ...), they must have thought is was easier to store everything in a clear format and get rid of the protection.

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