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Why Universal Shut Out iTunes on DRM-Free Music
Universal Music's decision to deliver DRM-free tracks to pretty much everybody but iTunes in its "test"—Amazon, Google, RealNetworks, Wal-Mart and other smaller stores—continues its wary, passive-aggressive stance toward Apple. Officially, a Universal rep told us in an email that it's "a scientifically designed research study over the next six months" that's using iTunes (their "Apple sales") "as a standard control group" to serve "as the baseline for comparison." But, what's really being tested is the viability of non-iTunes online sales.
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1:30 PM on Fri Aug 10 2007
By Matt Buchanan
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Latest by Worf: The main problem is that most other music stores sell music in WMA format, which don't play on iPods. Sure it may be DRM-free WMA rather than the usual DRM'd WMA (you can't tell by looking at it, unlike AAC more »
