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A few months ago, Apple launched it’s iTunes Plus service which sells music from the EMI recording company without any DRM (copy protection) whatsoever. Since then, EMI claims that the sales have been going a bit better, so it’s no wonder that other companies are also choosing to start selling their online music the same way.
Universal Music, which is one of the biggest recording companies has also decided to start selling most of their music online without any DRM protection on it. But Apple fans shouldn’t start partying just yet. Universal has chosen to not sell it’s DRM music on iTunes, but instead, will sell it on digital music retailers like RealNetworks and Wal-Mart.
Even so, this is another positive day for the music industry, and we are moving closer to a future that is completely free of all the troubles that DRM has plagued us with.
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2 Responses for "Universal Music to sell DRM-free music online"
August 10th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
1If this actually happens Apple fans should be just as happy as anyone else. If they are DRM free they should play on iPods and iPhones just fine.
I would imagine they aren’t with iTunes because they want to charge more per song than Apple is willing to charge. They’ll end up charging a crazy amount of money, not selling any music, then using that as an excuse, saying customers don’t want DRM free music.
August 12th, 2007 at 4:54 am
2Apple probably doesn’t want to participate in limited trials anyway.
Universal hasn’t said if the trials apply to their whole catalogue or just a subset of their artists. Knowing Universal, it will not be the whole catalogue.
I wonder how happy their artists are, knowing their music will not be sold DRM-free on the largest online digital music store.
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