It ’s over . The last major label to hold out on sell DRM - free MP3s , Sony BMG , is “ settle plans ” to trade music not locked down with DRM . It ’ll be useable sometime in the first after part , apparently in time to get in on Amazon and Pepsi’s1 billion song giveaway , which now depend like it ’ll have tracks from every major recording label . So , how ’d we get here ?
https://gizmodo.com/pepsi-and-amazon-giving-away-1-billion-mp3s-328731
We ’ve been saying for a while DRM has cancer ( is a Crab ? ) , die along , drawn out dying — cue Frucci ’s “ DRM Deathwatch ” meme . EMI ’s movewas characterized as a desperate ploy by the weakest label — hence , it ran with iTunes , something we ’ve been told the other labels would n’t have evensniffed atbecause of the dreaded iTunes hegemony ( more on that in a sec ) .
https://gizmodo.com/official-emi-to-release-music-drm-free-248836
But then Universal , the biggest label in the world , jumped . In large partto cut at iTunes , true . no matter , the lunar time period had turned . Warner and Sony BMG were mistrustful holdouts . AfterWarner get together the political party , Sony BMG really had little choice — it jolly much had to go open or go home , sowe’ve been expect this .
https://gizmodo.com/universal-announced-it-will-start-selling-drm-free-mu-288049
It ’s no surprise Sony is throw away in with Amazon , either . Again , the fear of an iTunes prototype is very real among the labels — if the last 10 years have taught us anything , they crave control more than money — and Amazon is in the beneficial position to compete with iTunes . Especially now that it has something very knock-down that iTMS doesn’t — DRM - free tracks from every major recording label .
The online music market just got a whole lot more interesting . [ Business Week ]
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