EMI going DRM free on iTunes?
If this turns out to be true:
But word ’round the campfire is that EMI, along with his Steveness, is going to announce at 8 AM EST that most of their catalog is going to be offered DRM-free on iTunes. There may be no Beatles, but who needs them when you have DRM-free music? On iTunes.
I’ll go and buy at least $50 worth of EMI DRM free music on iTunes as soon as it’s available.
April 2nd, 2007 at 9:41 am
You’re hoping.
I bet it’s The Beatles back catalogue on a special edition iPod.
April 2nd, 2007 at 9:44 am
Yeah, maybe I should qualify my pledge :)
April 2nd, 2007 at 12:17 pm
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April 2nd, 2007 at 12:24 pm
http://www.emigroup.com/Press/2007/press18.htm
99p instead of 79p for DRM free at ‘twice the quality’.
April 2nd, 2007 at 12:24 pm
ps. Your clock’s an hour out.
April 2nd, 2007 at 2:33 pm
I’d still rather buy stuff on cd and rip it myself.
April 2nd, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Me too. Though at 256kbps AAC, the un-DRMed stuff is as near as dammit to CD quality anyway. The BBC were reporting earlier that if you buy an album from iTunes, it’s still at the old price not hiked up.
I presume Andy’s contemplating what tracks to buy…
April 2nd, 2007 at 3:12 pm
That link you posted says the same as the beeb as well - no price change for albums.
April 2nd, 2007 at 4:59 pm
Even Cory Doctorow is singing Jobs’ praises. What a two faced knob end.
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/04/02/itunes_store_will_se.html
April 2nd, 2007 at 5:51 pm
Wow, you’ve really got it in for Cory eh?
I think you’ll find he’s praising the act not the man.
April 2nd, 2007 at 8:44 pm
Not just me. I see Gruber’s made him ‘Jackass of the Week’.
http://daringfireball.net/
April 2nd, 2007 at 8:54 pm
Oh well - case closed in that case. I stand corrected :)
I don’t know why the kindly antique shop owner from the Paddington books is getting involved in the debate though.
April 3rd, 2007 at 7:46 am
I thought that the ability to change your mind based on new information was a human trait.
April 3rd, 2007 at 9:36 pm
Oh, it is - but then being a two-faced knob end is too ;-)