EMI/Apple launch DRM free music downloads

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• Apr 2, 2007

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EMI Music launches DRM-free superior sound quality downloads across its entire digital repertoire

EMI Group CEO Eric Nicoli today hosted a press conference at EMI's headquarters in London where he announced that EMI Music is launching DRM-free superior quality downloads across its entire digital repertoire and that Apple's iTunes Store will be the first online music store to sell EMI's new downloads. Nicoli was joined by Apple CEO Steve Jobs. The event also featured a musical performance by The Good, The Bad & The Queen.

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About time!

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Apple Unveils Higher Quality DRM-Free Music on the iTunes Store

CUPERTINO, California—April 2, 2007—Apple® today announced that EMI Music’s entire digital catalog of music will be available for purchase DRM-free (without digital rights management) from the iTunes® Store (www.itunes.com) worldwide in May. DRM-free tracks from EMI will be offered at higher quality 256 kbps AAC encoding, resulting in audio quality indistinguishable from the original recording, for just $1.29 per song. In addition, iTunes customers will be able to easily upgrade their entire library of all previously purchased EMI content to the higher quality DRM-free versions for just 30 cents a song. iTunes will continue to offer its entire catalog, currently over five million songs, in the same versions as today—128 kbps AAC encoding with DRM—at the same price of 99 cents per song, alongside DRM-free higher quality versions when available.

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• Apr 3, 2007

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Good times

 

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• Apr 3, 2007

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Awesome...

Goodbye DRM, now we just need to get rid of the pricing model!

 

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• Apr 3, 2007

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Great, just don't agree with the pricing model and I think you should be able to "upgrade" for free.

 

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• Apr 3, 2007

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EMI unlocks digital music downloads

http://www.ioltechnology.co.za/article_page.php?iArticleId=3762959

EMI, the world's third largest music group, said it will begin to sell music without anti-piracy software over the Internet from May, but did not specify a launch date.

 

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• Apr 3, 2007

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Fantastic information! Die DRM Die!

 

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• Apr 3, 2007

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Its still a pity South Africans cant open an Itunes account.

 

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• Apr 3, 2007

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neio said:

Its still a pity South Africans cant open an Itunes account.

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It is indeed. Sure there are ways around it but having to circumvent barriers to download music legally pretty much defines stupid in my books.

 

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• Apr 3, 2007

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neio said:

Its still a pity South Africans cant open an Itunes account.

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Probably too many of them searching for songs like "Fetch me my machine gun ."