Sony officially announced DRM-free music
Sony BMG, the music company, announced Thursday that it would become the fourth and final major label to begin selling digital music on Amazon.com, offering its entire catalog in the MP3 format by the end of the month. The move by Sony BMG, which represents artists like Bruce Springsteen, the Foo Fighters, Santana and Justin Timberlake, further positions Amazon’s digital music store as a significant rival to the market leader, the iTunes store from Apple. “This is such an exciting day for us and our customers,” said Bill Carr, vice president for digital music at Amazon. “All four major labels will be part of our service. It means our customers will really have access to all the biggest artists in the world.
”Sony’s embrace of the MP3 format is also the latest blow to the technology known as digital rights management software, or D.R.M., which is intended to prevent consumers from making unauthorized copies of digital material. But Sony’s partnership with Amazon.com also underscores the music industry’s gathering effort to nurture an online rival to Apple, which has sold more than three billion songs through its iTunes store. Most music purchased on iTunes can be played only on Apple devices, and Apple insists on selling all single tracks for 99 cents. Amazon, which sells tracks for anywhere from 89 cents to over a dollar, offers the pricing variability the labels want. This is obviously a great news for people buying the music, but the majority of us probably don’t care too much about pricing variability, thanks to the scene.
Source: NY Times
Comments(13)
at last
As long as your not selling it on the street corner, i say free to all for ever and ever.
When does this: “Source: NY Times”
Become this: “majority of us probably don’t care too much about pricing variability, thanks to the scene.”
This article is confusing in that some of what is written is the admin’s own and some is from a New York Times article.
::It would be beneficial to the reader to put your own words in italics or separate from the article so as to indicate what is news and what is the opinion of this blog’s administrators.
> at last
i agreed
> This is obviously a great news for people buying the music, but
> the majority of us probably don’t care too much about pricing
> variability, thanks to the scene.
>
> _Source: NY Times_
I LOLed.
I do care btw. DRM getting removed is a _very good_ thing no matter if you are gonna buy it or not. The only audience it hurt was the one that paid for it which was (and still is with other copy protection mechanism) kinda counter effective. (I prefer downloading a clean dvd than being forced to watch a 10second “Raubkopierer sind Schwerverbrecher” advertisement on my DVD i paid for LOL)
wow, now all they need 2 do is make their games + blueray region free and they will almost b playing fare.
One small step 4 sony in regards 2 getting my respect back but they still got along way 2 go.
OsT
What does DRM mean?
Digital Rights Management:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management
AMEN @3
i’ve been noticing this thing in a lot of articles
ur personal opinions should be added in another paragraph and in italics
but i do agree its not something we care as music is something which can be foud up on many forums and pvt trackers as well not necessarily scene but everybody nowdays can rip a cd and upload it
So this means that they are now effectively where Napster wanted to go more than 10 years ago. Think of all the wasted time, energy and money spent and lost along the way. And they are still crying about all the money lost to piracy. Fools.
Seems that hell has frozen ! Oh, the Canucks still have not one the cup yet. It’s not frozen.
If it’s Sony, I’m sure the bastards will find some way to sneak a ****ing rootkit onto your computer.
@6 boris,
As the Wikipedia page mentions, a more accurate definition of DRM is Digital RESTRICTIONS Management, since that’s exactly what DRM does, RESTRICT what you can do with it.
In other news, DRM on video is alive and well…
@#10- “….still have not one the cup yet.”
The correct spelling and word is “won”. W-O-N. Won.
As in, “Mr. X WON the dunce cap for his spelling and the class trophy for best ONE handed typist.”
Class dismissed.