Finally iTunes Music Without DRM!!!
04.02.07 - 12:44pm
Steve Jobs is staying true to his word in an open letter he issued saying he wanted to abolish DRM’s. In a landmark deal with EMI Group, the fourth largest record label in the world, it has been announced that all songs would have the DRMs removed beginning in May.
“EMI, which has historically been one of the more experimentation-friendly major labels, realized that that’s the future,” said
Aram Sinnreich, a senior analyst with Radar Research.
The songs will cost slightly more at $129 instead of $0.99 but this is not supposed to be because of the removal of the DRMs but instead due to higher sound quality being featured in the songs.
“We think our customers are going to love this,” Jobs said. He also expects that with the pressure being put on other record labels, more than half of iTunes songs will be DRM free by the end of the year.
