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Amazon Officially First To Drop Major DRM: Sony the Fourth and Final Big Label Onboard

Less than a week after it came out Sony BMG was planning to sell music not loaded down with copyright protection, they're officially selling DRM-free MP3s through Amazon's MP3 store later this month, making it the first store to carry DRM-free music from all four major labels. UPDATE: Regarding the lack of numbers in the press release, we've been told Sony BMG's "entire digital catalog" will be available later this month—still working on more details. More »

4:30 PM on Thu Jan 10 2008
By matt buchanan
7,623 views, 32 comments

Latest by psmall: Help me Lord, I so don't care about the back & forth on who's digital music player is best. I just want to listen to my music. I just migrated to a MAC from many years of working on Windows more »

warner drops drm

Amazon Now Selling MP3s from Warner; 2.9 Million DRM-Free Tracks Now Available

Amazon just kicked a certain Cupertino-based company where it counts, scoring DRM-free MP3s from Warner Music Group that you can buy today. This leaves out only the big S, Sony, which is always the last to cave in when the topic is reduced content protection. By contrast, Apple, which helped usher in the DRM-free music initiative, is only selling iTunes Plus tracks from EMI. Stay tuned, though, as that could change at any minute. Jump for full press release. More »

9:16 AM on Thu Dec 27 2007
By Wilson Rothman
3,812 views, 38 comments

Latest by brian1cj: Anyone remember VQF files in 1998 that were supposed to be an mp3 killer? more »

music

Universal Plans Total Music Anti-iTunes Initiative With Free All-You-Can-Eat Music

Not only is Universal not signing multi-year contracts with Apple, it is now creating a service to confront iTunes and nurture iPod competitors like the Zune. Called Total Music, it may include Universal, Sony BMG and Warner—75% of music sold in the US—and would offer a twist on the traditional download and "PlaysForSure" subscription concepts. When you buy a Total Music-supported MP3 player, you would essentially get free all-you-can-eat music. More »

11:46 AM on Fri Oct 12 2007
By Wilson Rothman
9,484 views, 40 comments

Latest by brucewarila: I'm late to the comment party on this one This is an excerpt from my blog ([www.unsprungartists.com]). ...If you're an artist and you don't know my position, here it is in a nutshell: You need to be in at more »

George Harrison's catalog is now on iTunes, including a 2001 remaster of the All Things Must Pass double album in 256Kbps DRM-free MP3 for just $9.99. Maybe this should be a Dealzmodo. [iTunes]

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mini review

Amazon Non-DRM MP3 Store now in Public Beta, Easy to Use

Amazon's MP3 store is now in public beta, so you can all have a fiddle around with the DRM-free service &mdash like I just did. First observations: More »

9:37 AM on Tue Sep 25 2007
By Addy Dugdale
8,738 views, 19 comments

Latest by zan: I like the fact that this store exists, and I hope it will spur some competition. Considering that the near-identical product on iTunes costs a lot more (the iTunes Plus versions), and that even the DRM-locked versions cost more on iTunes, more »

amazon race

Amazon's DRM-Free MP3 Store Likely to Launch Mid-September

Amazon will probably launch its DRM-free music store in the next few weeks, according to sources in the New York Post, joining Wal-Mart and others in posing the first real threat to the iTunes Music hegemony. As Ars and others have reported, Amazon honcho Jeff Bezos adopted an MP3-only strategy so that the music Amazon sells can play on iPods "any device." Trouble is, it may be a half-assed music store, with Sony and Warner still mum on the subject of stripped DRM. [Reuters/Yahoo]

11:17 AM on Fri Aug 31 2007
By Wilson Rothman
8,012 views, 11 comments

Latest by maxsommers: There's always someone coming along to outdo everyone else. mTraks is all DRM-free and just started giving away 30 songs free to join their plan & they've got close to a million songs. Pretty cool. more »

Wal-Mart has begun selling 256Kbps DRM-free MP3 tracks from EMI for 94 cents each ($9.22 per album). To view its new and improved music store, you'll need Internet Explorer. [Wal-Mart]

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free at last

Rumor: EMI's DRM-Free Tracks Hitting iTunes This Week

Electronista is reporting that "according to French sources familiar with negotiations for multiple online music stores," Apple is set to drop EMI's DRM-free catalog onto iTunes this week. Techs are entering the last stages of encoding and prepping the files to go live. More »

1:00 PM on Sun May 27 2007
By Matt Buchanan
2,411 views, 6 comments

hooray for no drm

Amazon Jumps Headfirst into DRM-Free Music Download Market with 12,000 Record Labels

Amazon's joining the ranks of DRM-free music distributors with the launch of an MP3-only download store that will offer "millions of songs" from "more than 12,000 record labels" with no copy protections whatsoever. Leading those labels, naturally, is the record industry's DRM-free town bicycle, EMI, who is curiously the only label mentioned by name of the 12,000, so we can bet no other majors are on board. Yet, anyway. More »

12:35 PM on Wed May 16 2007
By Matt Buchanan
5,518 views, 30 comments