Apple systems in cooperation with EMI announced yesterday that they will start offering DRM free songs on the iTunes music store starting in May. The songs will be encoded at double the current bit rate, and -since there is no DRM- you are free to do with the songs whatever you see fit. You can use it on as many computers, iPods as you want, or you can even copy it to a different MP3 player. This is good news for those people who have more than one MP3 player and were forced to buy the song more than once to have it on their different machines.
The songs will be priced at $1.29 against the curernt $0.99, but i guess having 256K bit rate instead of 128, plus no DRM is worth the extra 30 cents. Also, you can upgrade any songs you have from the EMI catalog for just 30 cents.
Apple is hoping that by the end of the year, more than 3 of the 5 million songs in its store will be offered in both DRM and DRM-Free formats.
Thursday, April 5, 2007
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2 comments:
it's good being mp3-responsible and actually buy it :)
i just listen to internet radio now most of the time
how you been man? it's been a while
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