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NEWS ABOUT: DRM free music

DRM free music stories: 6 news summaries

Audio Books Lose Copy Protection

Major publishers' downloads can be played on all devices

Mar 3, 08 12:02 PM CST
(Newser) - Some major book publishers are planning to remove anticopying protections from digital audio books, allowing customers who download them to transfer the files between their computers and portable players. The world’s biggest publisher, Random House, will offer all its audio books as unrestricted MP3s this month, reports the More »

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online retailers • DRM free music • iPod • copyright • digital downloads • DRM • iTunes Store • portable media players • MP3s • Random House • Penguin Group • Simon & Schuster • audio books

OPINION

Watermarking Sets Music Biz Up to Fail Again

DRM wasn't answer,
but tagging tunes
is no better

Jan 17, 08 1:30 PM CST
(Newser) - Digital rights management is dying, but Ken Fisher writes in Ars Technica that the music industry is “barking up the wrong tree” if it turns to watermarks instead. The technology—which encodes owners' info into tunes—isn’t a practical copyright infringement fix or good from a privacy standpoint.... More »

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music industry • music downloads • DRM free music • copyright infringement • watermarking

Napster Moves to MP3-Only Format

Site ditches DRM in blow to digital music copyright proponents

Jan 7, 08 3:30 PM CST
(Newser) - Bad news for digital music copyright advocates: Napster plans to sell music downloads as MP3s and stop selling DRM-protected songs, the digital music retailer said today. Digital rights management blocks consumers from illegally sharing music but is unpopular with users because DRM-protected songs will often only play on certain players... More »

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DRM free music • digital music • DRM • MP3 • Napster • digital rights management

Sony BMG
Will Bail
on DRM

Label becomes fourth and final industry giant to ditch copy protection

Jan 4, 08 1:20 PM CST
(Newser) - Sony BMG will begin offering at least part of its music catalogue online without restrictive digital rights management mechanisms, Business Week reports. The decision comes after the other three major labels—Warner, EMI, and Universal—decided to ditch DRM in 2007, challenging Apple's 80% share of the legal music downloads... More »

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Apple • DRM free music • DRM • Amazon MP3 • music label • Sony BMG

Amazon Gets Funky With Warner Music

DRM-free iTunes competitor continues to attract big labels

Dec 27, 07 2:21 PM CST
(Newser) - Amazon’s burgeoning mp3 service landed another big fish today, adding Warner Music’s catalog to its online store. The Amazon shop aims to compete with Apple’s iTunes, selling songs for 89 cents as opposed to Apple’s 99 cents and without digital rights management software that makes sharing... More »

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music industry • Apple • DRM free music • digital music • DRM • Warner Music • iTunes Store • Amazon MP3 • Amazon.com

New iTunes Offerings Raise Privacy Worries

DRM-free tracks contain purchaser's name, email address

Jun 5, 07 11:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Apple's announcement that iTunes would make DRM-free music available omitted a significant detail: The personal information embedded in regular tracks is also in the non-privacy-protected tunes. That raises privacy concerns, the AP reports, including the possibility that the unencrypted information might make it easier for music companies to crack down... More »

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iTunes • online privacy • Apple • DRM free music

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