05-17-2007, 10:27 AM
Quote:Online retail giant Amazon.com has finally announced what has long been rumored -- its plans to enter the online music download market. Amazon has long expressed its intentions to only enter the market if it could sell songs free of digital rights management restrictions, and it appears to have gotten its way by partnering with EMI and thousands of smaller independent labels...
"Amazon's DRM-free MP3s will free customers to play their music on virtually any of their personal devices -- including PCs, Macs, iPods, Zunes, Zens -- and to burn songs to CDs for personal use," the company said in announcing the new store. It stressed that "every song" will be DRM-free, not just the EMI files, which are already for sale without DRM on iTunes.
Limited Catalog
However, Amazon didn't specify which other labels' songs its new store will carry. Most of the major labels, including Warner Music Group, Sony and Universal, are sticking to their guns about DRM and refusing to sell songs stripped of the protection...
full article: http://ecommercetimes.com/story/QH9ahaYU...usic.xhtml