paidcontent.org - 1/6/2009
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The hot rumor for the biggest announcement of Apple's final MacWorld Expo today says DRM protection will be dropped from iTunes Store music downloads. EMI already began offering higher-fidelity, DRM-free AAC files back in May 2007, after Steve Jobs said Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL ) would "embrace ...
apple.com - 1/6/2009
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apple.com —
SAN FRANCISCO January 6, 2009 Apple today announced
several changes to the iTunes Store ( www.itunes.com )....
Beginning today, all four major music labels Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, Warner Music Group and EMI, along with thousands of independent ...
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Changes Coming to the iTunes Store
news.cnet.com - 1/6/2009
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news.cnet.com —
Apple has cut deals that will finally enable
iTunes to offer songs free of copy protection software...
from the three largest music labels, according to two sources close to the negotiations. In exchange, Apple has agreed to become more flexible on ...
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Sources: Apple to expand DRM-free music, new pricing
techcrunch.com - 1/6/2009
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techcrunch.com —
Nearly two years ago, Steve Jobs published an
open letter to the music industry calling for the...
death of DRM (digital rights management). He convinced EMI to ditch DRM back in April, 2007, but the three other major music labels held out. Until ...
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The Price Of Going DRM-Free: Apple’s Hidden $1.8 Billion ...
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Apple Allowing iPhone Users To Buy Songs Over 3G Network
mocoNews —
... . The move will apply to eight million tracks as of today and will extend to a further two million by the end of the quarter. Bringing to a close what have sometimes been fractious label negotiations, Apple is also introducing three new pricing tiers for iTunes tracks—$0.69 for older tracks, $0.99 for recent tracks and $1.29 for new hits. Full coverage on paidContent.org... ...
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mocoNews —
... Their coverage can be seen at our CES 2009 channels on both paidContent.org and mocoNews.net.
Our top headlines of the first full week in 2009:
paidContent.org: —@ CES: Sony's Stringer Promises Internet Connectivity for 90 Percent Of Products —@ CES: Norwest's Chang: Things Could Get Scary For Facebook, Slide in '09 —Citi Media: Time Warner's Martin On AOL: Don't Expect Any Strategic Deals Soon —Confirmed: Apple Dropping DRM Across iTunes, New Pricing Structure, 3G Downloads —Ziff ...
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blogs.zdnet.com 1/7/2009 — News from the Macworld Expo - iTunes is in the final stages of shedding DRM, offering some eight million of its 10 million songs in Apple’s iTunes Plus DRM-free format. But does anyone care? Is there anyone who is still concerned about DRM buying ...
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I4U News 1/6/2009
The Apple Keynote lacked hot hardware announcements besides the new 17 inch MacBook Pro, but the good news is that 10 million songs on iTunes are going to be DRM free. Additionally there is a new pricing structure with $0.69, $0.99 and $1.29 per ...
Pranksters inflitrate live MacWorld feed —
The Register 1/6/2009
Blasphemy on Jobsian high holy day As unfounded as they may be, reports of Steve Jobs's demise have spread to a live feed of MacWorld provided by Apple gossip site MacRumors after griefers managed to breach the website's security.…
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