Apple Announces DRM Free Music in iTunes
Apple, iTunes April 3rd, 2007iTunes will begin selling DRM free music in May. All of the music will be coming from EMI and will cost $1.29. The cooler thing is that you can upgrade your music if it is available in the DRM free version for $0.30 per track. The music will also be encoded in 256-bit AAC.
This is pretty great and I think this is a big step towards showing other record companies that selling DRM free music will be able to bring sales back up.
EMI’s Eric Nicoli/Apple’s Steve Jobs EMI Presentation Live Notes [CrunchGear]
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April 7th, 2007 at 8:13 pm
Yeah, and Microsoft has announced they’re going to be doing this with EMI too, in their Zune Marketplace.
I think it’s incredible that EMI is stepping forward and doing this, and really getting the ball rolling for DRM-free music.
By the way, albums are the same price as always, so that makes the extra 30 cents on single tracks a lot more bearable.