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DRM-Free March Has Stalled. Who's To Blame?

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2008-03-26 11:04:19 by Bruce Houghton in hypebot
...DRM out of a 6M song catalog Amazon offers 4.5 million DRM-free songs So Steve Jobs, who in a widely publicized speech last year demanded the major labels drop DRM, has been far slower to adopt DRM free than competitor Amazon. It seems impossible that Apple has been unable to use its leverage to make deals with more labels. Perhaps Jobs and...
 
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iTunes, DRM and Artist Royalties

2008-10-03 18:47:30 by ACtual in .Evolving Music.
 
...DRM protected. Of course, the DRM is built into the song, so what exactly happens if the company selling the songs ends their existence? Well, it looks like the DRM for the material would expire, leaving consumers with hundreds if not thousands of purchased songs that will no longer play anywhere. As a music lover (and legal buyer of mp3s),...
 
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Sony/BMG Finalizing Deal To Strip DRM From Part Of Their Catalog

2008-01-05 02:55:20 by dj ivi of MOG in MOG - Editor's Picks
 
...DRM is Dead! The wicked restrictions will be buried soon... Last week when WMG announced that it would offer its entire catalog of music DRM -free via the new Amazon digital music store, everyone knew it couldn't be long before Sony/BMG threw in the towel. BusinessWeek.com and Wired (+numerous other site) announced today that the last of the...
 
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Sony BMG Gives DRM Free Catalog To Amazon

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2008-01-10 16:16:16 by Bruce Houghton in hypebot
...DRM. BusinessWeek recently suggested that SonyBMG would drop DRM for select experiments, but Hypebot broke the story of the label group going totally DRM free last Friday This makes Amazon MP3 the only retailer to offer DRM free tracks from every major record label as well as 33,000 indie labels. Sources tell Hypebot that other download...
 
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WMG Offers Digital Catalog DRM-Free Exclusively On Amazon MP3

2007-12-28 05:58:36 by dj ivi of MOG in MOG - Editor's Picks
 
...DRM from their digital music catalog and are making it available on Amazon MP3 . At this time, the WMG catalog is only available DRM -Free via Amazon's digital music store. This adds considerable heft to the idea circulating this month that Amazon MP3 is surpassing iTunes in quality and quantity of music served. WMG has held off on offering...
 
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Sony BMG Drops DRM, Amazon MP3 The Sole Provider Of DRM-Free MP3s From Majors

2008-01-11 00:33:55 by dj ivi of MOG in MOG - Editor's Picks
 
...DRM from their digital catalog today. Sony BMG entered an agreement with Amazon's MP3 Store to sell DRM -free mp3s. Sony announced previously that they would release 37 specific albums as digital downloads, but this new agreement "represents a broad acceptance of the MP3 format by Sony BMG , which up until now, had been the major deemed the...
 
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Is DRM Dead? Some Don't Think So.

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2008-05-09 11:13:00 by Bruce Houghton in hypebot
...DRM, some industry leaders seem to believe DRM is poised for a comeback. From this week's Digital NARM I made a list of the 22 ways to sell music, and 20 of them still require DRM. Any form of subscription service or limited play-per-view or advertising offer still requires DRM...I think there will be a movement towards subscription services...
 
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Monday's Music 2.0 Briefing: Sony DRM Shift, CES Opens, Napster Goes MP3 & Much More

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2008-01-07 03:44:17 by Bruce Houghton in hypebot
...DRM free retail trading card program . ( USA Today ) Some writers are calling this proof that Sony is dropping DRM free, but we had this story weeks ago and broke the story on Friday that full elimination of DRM by this last major label group to fully drop restrictions is just week away The Consumer Electronic Show kicks off in Las Vegas with...
 
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Napster Offers 6 Million Songs As DRM-Free MP3s, Drops Monthly Fee

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2008-05-21 00:57:12 by mollifire of MOG in MOG - Editor's Picks
...DRM -FREE wagon today, by making its 6 million tracks available as play-anywhere mp3s. The tracks are high-bitrate 256kbps mp3s without restrictions and can be played on any mp3 player. Individual tracks cost $0.99 (79p in UK) while full albums cost $9.99 - comparable to iTunes' pricing for similar tracks. iTunes, on the other hand, only...
 
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Wal-Mart Closes Down DRM Operations, Makes Music Unplayable

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2008-09-29 20:52:17 by Daniel Kreps in Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily