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April 02, 2007
Music News - iTunes Songs Without Copyright Protection?
Grayson's Music Post
as many of you probably know, when you buy a song of iTunes, it comes along with copyright protection (protected AAC file). this is a problem if you want to burn your music as a data disk or if you want to move it between devices. according to apple, as of april 2nd, 2007, you will be able to by EMI music's entire digital cataloge without DRM (digital rights managment). the move away from DRM came after apple chief executive officer steve jobs asked EMI, universal music group, sony BMG music entertainment, and warner music group corp. to let apple remove DRM software from online music in february.
anyways, this is a start, as EMI is the world's third largest music company. songs will be offered at $1.29 for higher quality, DRM-free tracks and $0.99 for the normal quality tracks. if anything, this move should result in increased sales for apple as people with digital music players besides the iPod will be able to play music bought through iTunes.