Death of DRM?
April 2, 2007 marked the date when Steve Jobs and Eric Nicoli of EMI announced that EMI will release it's entire catalog in higher definition audio (256kbps) and DRM free. The cost for each song also jumped up 30%.
What can I say? no better way to nail-the-coffin shut on this DRM issue than by giving away higher quality music free of copy protection. For avid users who listen to music via solid state devices (PC, iPods, Zunes etc), that's a godsend. This will not only kill DRM, it'll kill music distributed via CDs too. Who would wanna buy a CD and have to rip it to be available throughout all your gadgets like the portable music device, PC, media center, car, etc.
What I still don't understand is why they're still distributing "standard sound quality tracks with DRM".?!?! bizarre. What's the point? when you can have better quality music that's unprotected?
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