No drm and variable prices on iTunes music, that's what Apple had said in one of their press releases. Find the complete details below.
Apple has finally made an agreement with all the prominent music labels regarding the DRM issues.From now onwards,all of the four major music labels-EMI,Sony Music Entertainment,UMG and Warner Music Group will start selling music through iTunes without D.R.M. software which used to constraint digital files from getting copied(EMI was doing it already).
Dumping D.R.M. was Apple's long time wish but three of the four biggest music labels were in constant disagreement on compromising upon anti-copying restrictions.But this January,at Macworld 09,this agreement went official.This DRM exclusion will surely bring more sales to iTunes as customers can now copy the music downloaded from iTunes with no hesitation.
But the compromise isn't one-sided at all. Apple has also compromised on its part,agreeing to variable prices for various songs,as against its standard '99 cents per song' methodology for selling any music(old or latest).April onwards,the majority of songs(older tracks) will be sold at 69 cents while the most popular and newest songs will come
No drm and variable prices on iTunes music, that's what Apple had said in one of their press releases. Find the complete details below.
Apple has finally made an agreement with all the prominent music labels regarding the DRM issues.From now onwards,all of the four major music labels-EMI,Sony Music Entertainment,UMG and Warner Music Group will start selling music through iTunes without D.R.M. software which used to constraint digital files from getting copied(EMI was doing it already).
Dumping D.R.M. was Apple's long time wish but three of the four biggest music labels were in constant disagreement on compromising upon anti-copying restrictions.But this January,at Macworld 09,this agreement went official.This DRM exclusion will surely bring more sales to iTunes as customers can now copy the music downloaded from iTunes with no hesitation.
But the compromise isn't one-sided at all. Apple has also compromised on its part,agreeing to variable prices for various songs,as against its standard '99 cents per song' methodology for selling any music(old or latest).April onwards,the majority of songs(older tracks) will be sold at 69 cents while the most popular and newest songs will come