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iTunes Goes DRM Free - But No Social Network Just Yet

Source: ReadWriteWeb

Jan 06, 2009

Summary

At the Macworld 2009 keynote today, Apple announced that by the end of this quarter, all 10 million songs available on iTunes will be DRM free (Digital Rights Management). As of today, 8 million songs will be DRM free, with the other 2 million done by end of Q1 09. This is long overdue, especially considering that Steve Jobs wrote an open letter to music industry in February 2007 asking them to abolish DRM. Since that time, many of Apple's key competitors have gone DRM free or have significantly loosened the restrictions - Rhapsody in June 08, Yahoo Music in July 08, and Walmart in October 08, to mention just a few. So it's great to see the market leader in online music, Apple, actively killing off DRM too.

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DRM-free upgrades to your existing iTunes collection are also now available.

Apple also announced a new pricing structure for iTunes, which will start from 1 April 2009. The iTunes service made its name for selling songs for 99 cents each, which when it first launched in April 2003 was a major reason for its initial success. However times change and

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Comments (3)

Kadesoto,

Jan 06, 2009

Nicely sums up the iTunes/music-related aspects of today's Keynote.

Thomaspower,

Jan 07, 2009

yet ...it's coming why doesn't Jobs complete his last finale and buy Facebook?

Gregbd,

Jan 07, 2009

It's lame, you have to upgrade every song, at the same time, plus the quality of the DRM free songs is so much better, makes me frustrated I bought the other stuff, didn't now better.