Clearly, Apple is willing to embrace DRM-free music sales, and they’re not going to wait for all of the major labels to agree before going forward with it. So much for accusations that Jobs was full of shit with his “Thoughts on Music” essay. They’re going to allow upgrades for existing song purchases, too. They’ve long resisted raising the prices on singles, but they’re going to $1.29 with two significant improvements: double the encoding bitrate and no DRM. Higher-quality, DRM-free songs will be available in May. Quality and DRM-free, with no change in the price. ITunes Store will automatically be sold at the higher sound Complete albums from EMI Music artists purchased on the $0.99/€0.99/£0.79 for standard sound quality tracks with DRM stillĪpplied. Will continue to offer consumers the ability to pay The Cupertino-based company will make individual AAC format tracksĪvailable from EMI artists at twice the sound quality of existingĭownloads and without any digital right management (DRM EMI to Offer DRM-Free Online Music Monday, 2 April 2007
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