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jkf

Sun 10 Jun, 2007


Warner starts selling downloads without DRM

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This week the Warner Music Group,<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> the forth-largest label has started to sell digital downloads without DRM protection.<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>
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The company opted not to work with the iTunes store for this project,<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> although itâ<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>€<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>™s been announced that downloads are iPod compatible and are priced similarly as at iTunes:<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> around 99 cents per song.<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>
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To prevent downloads unprotected by DRM being leaked to the file sharing networks,<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> files are downloaded straight to portable MP3 players without being stored on a PC.<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>
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The Warner Music Group is the second label sell DRM free downloads after EMI did the same last month.<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>
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Maybe they are slowly starting to see the light.<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>.<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>.<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>