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Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Amazon to sell DRM-free music downloads
Amazon yesterday unveiled a plan to take on Apple's dominance in digital music, promising to offer downloads of millions of tracks from thousands of labels after signing a deal with EMI.
The online retailer's virtual store, to be launched this year, was announced in the wake of EMI offering its entire digital catalogue in a format free of digital rights management (DRM) software.
Amazon said all tracks from its download service would be in plain MP3 format, allowing them to be transferred between and played on almost any device, including Apple's market-leading iPod, and burned to CD without restriction.
This is more good news for consumers and music fans. It finally seems that the rest of the world is now agreeing with us here at HungryFlix that DRM only serves to annoy and frustrate true customers while doing nothing to stop true pirates.
HungryFlix.com has been selling movie downloads with no DRM since our inception.
The online retailer's virtual store, to be launched this year, was announced in the wake of EMI offering its entire digital catalogue in a format free of digital rights management (DRM) software.
Amazon said all tracks from its download service would be in plain MP3 format, allowing them to be transferred between and played on almost any device, including Apple's market-leading iPod, and burned to CD without restriction.
This is more good news for consumers and music fans. It finally seems that the rest of the world is now agreeing with us here at HungryFlix that DRM only serves to annoy and frustrate true customers while doing nothing to stop true pirates.
HungryFlix.com has been selling movie downloads with no DRM since our inception.
Labels: amazon, digital download, DRM
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