In February Steve Jobs told the world that he thought it was time to get rid of DRM and now two months later word on the street is that Steve Jobs plans on selling songs owned by London based EMI on iTunes DRM free.If it happens, this could be the beginning of the end for DRM if other record companies follow suit and offer up their tunes DRM free as well. Jobs will reportedly make an announcement about a "new digital offering" at EMI's London headquarters this morning. The announcement was originally rumored to be the addition of the previously unavailable Beatles catalog on iTunes but has later been confirmed by the Wall Street Journal as an announcement of DRM-free music on iTunes. You can hear everything first hand from Job's himself by listening live to a webcast of the press conference on EMI's website at 8am EST.
[Via MarketWatch]
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4-02-2007 @ 12:14PM
zai said...
They already did the press conference. The BBC link below:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6516189.stm
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4-02-2007 @ 12:19PM
Brad Linder said...
And here's the press release from EMI:
http://www.emigroup.com/Press/2007/press18.htm
Basically for about $.30 more per song, you'll get higher bitrates and no DRM. If other labels sign on, I'll actually think about buying music from iTunes.
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