{"id":2377,"date":"2007-12-28T12:27:40","date_gmt":"2007-12-28T10:27:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-02-01T11:55:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T09:55:08","slug":"amazon-warner-music-team-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/2377-amazon-warner-music-team-up.html","title":{"rendered":"Amazon, Warner Music team up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8211; Amazon and Warner Music Group are offering music downloads that would have no copy protection, making them playable on virtually any digital audio device, the companies announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Internet retail giant&#8217;s digital music store, Amazon MP3, will launch sales of the music downloads Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>The companies did not announce the price of the songs. Other songs at Amazon MP3 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/mp3\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.amazon.com\/mp3<\/a>) are priced at a range of 89 cents to 99 cents Launched in September 2007, Amazon MP3 offers a la carte MP3 music downloads that are free of digital rights managment (DRM) software. The store offers more than 2.9 million songs from over 33,000 record labels.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Consumers want flexibility with respect to what they can do with music once they purchase it, and we want them to have that flexibility, which is why we&#8217;re pleased to offer our artists&#8217; music on Amazon MP3,&#8221; said Michael Nash, senior vice president, Digital Strategy and Business Development for Warner Music Group.<\/p>\n<p>Warner Music Group became the only stand-alone music company to be publicly traded in the United States in May 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Its vast portfolio includes record labels Asylum, Atlantic, Elektra, Nonesuch, Reprise and Rhino.<\/p>\n<p><em>AFP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon and Warner Music Group are offering music downloads that would have no copy protection, making them playable on virtually any digital audio device<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}