Thursday, January 10, 2008

Sony BMG Goes DRM-free: Take Two

Now this sounds a little more like it:

Amazon.com has announced that it will be adding music from Sony BMG to its Amazon MP3 DRM-free music store later this month, which will make it the only service to offer DRM-free tracks from all four major labels.


I could not figure out where Sony BMG was going with that whole DRM-free music card thing. Leave it to me to jump the gun.

Yet iTunes still doesn't get the love. Funny, years back, wasn't it the labels insisting that Apple couldn't have their music unless extensive DRM was put on? And now the labels are dropping the DRM, but not on iTunes. It's like the labels are punishing iTunes because the labels have lost control of how and when people listen to music. It's not as if the labels had a decade or so to stop screwing around and come up with a new model.

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