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A Death Blow to DRM

Posted by Sander_Marechal on · 3 comments
Washington Post; By Rob Pegoraro 		Mail this story
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Less than two months after Apple chief executive Steve Jobs challenged record labels to stop insisting on "digital rights management" copy restrictions, one of the major record labels took him up on the invitation. This morning, EMI Music announced that it would allow customers to buy music off Apple's iTunes Store--and later, other music stores--without any "DRM" encumbrances, and in a higher-quality format than before.

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Comments (3)

beirwin ·
Not sure about the death blow notion, but it might be a small step to making it more irrelevant.
dcparris ·
I agree. I truly hope it catches on. I applaud Steve for making the challenge. At least he's got the credibility where people will listen to him. Now, if we can only convince him to distribute Mac OS under a FOSS license... ;-)
Sander_Marechal Story submitter ·
There is other news in this news as well: Apple is loosing it's stranglehold on iTunes. Apple has always insisted that *all* music sold through iTunes should be the same price: $0.99. The new music will be $1.29 so it looks like EMI broke through Apple's pricing "monopoly".

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