distorted-loop.com - 11/25/2008
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The long-standing duel between Apple and three major labels, Universal, Warners and Sony BMG may be coming to an end, with tracks from these majors now showing up within the iTunes Plus music upgrade service.
There’s been strong rumours claiming negotiations between Apple and the labels to ...
news.cnet.com - 11/19/2008
eff.org - 11/26/2008
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eff.org —
Once again, thanks to DRM, a new product
ends up less useful than the one it replaces
. This time, it's the new family of Apple Macbook laptop computers that gets the downgrade . When it launched the new Macbooks, Apple announced that they would ...
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Apple Downgrades Macbook Video with DRM
distorted-loop.com - 12/3/2008
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distorted-loop.com —
Amazon’s move to introduce its DRM-free MP3 download
store in the UK is beginning to generate reactions
from within the UK music industry, with competing online music service, 7Digital’s CEO Ben Drury noting his company went DRM-free first in the UK ...
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DRM-free ‘iTunes Plus’ tracks from Universal, Warner, SonyBMG appear in Apple’s iTunes Store
MacDailyNews —
... is already thought to be uploading tracks to make available through iTunes Plus," Evans reports. MacDailyNews Note: Several MacDailyNews readers report buying iTunes Plus DRM-free tracks from Warner, Universal, and SonyBMG within the past 24-hours. Evans continues, "Overnight sundry spies have spotted tracks from the three hold-out majors popping up in the 'Upgrade My Library' section of iTunes, where users can upgrade their purchases from DRM’d to DRM-free tracks." Full article here . MacDailyNews Take: All we need now is the press release. In the meantime, go hunt for ...
News: iTunes adds early links to DRM-free music from holdout labels
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond —
image New links found on the iTunes Store suggest that Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony BMG may finally begin offering DRM-free iTunes Plus tracks through the service. Most notably, users have begun seeing tracks from the three labels appearing in the “Upgrade My Library” area of the store, which offers users a one-click option to upgrade past DRMed iTunes Store purchases to higher quality, DRM-free iTunes Plus versions. As shown in the screenshot, some of these recordings are appearing in this area without pricing or links to purchase, suggesting that Apple ...
Where’d the iTunes Plus area of iTunes vanish to?
VentureBeat —
... This disappearance alongside reports of certain iTunes Plus track availability from music labels that previously didn’t offer iTunes Plus tracks, makes it seem as if Apple is gearing up to relaunch the area — or perhaps even the entire store — with a lot more DRM-free content. ...
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blog.wired.com 1/7/2009 —
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DRM close to extinction on iTunes?
venturebeat.com 1/6/2009 — One of my key predictions for 2009 was that Apple’s iTunes store would go DRM-free. There are always a lot of Apple rumors out there, but I was so confident in this one that I actually made the prediction twice . It turns out that may have ...
Don't hold your breath for DRM-free iTunes news
news.cnet.com 12/9/2008 —
Rumors coming out of Europe that claim Apple will begin offering unprotected music files from the three largest recording companies on Tuesday are bogus, according to my music-industry sources.
Yes, Apple is in negotiations with the three ...
DRM = Doesn't Really Matter
louisgray.com 1/6/2009 — If one of the biggest items to be delivered at tomorrow's MacWorld Expo is the elimination of DRM from songs on the iTunes store, as is rumored , then we are on the brink of the biggest snoozefests in technology event history. Forget that Mr. Steve ...
Negotiations to put Beatles on iTunes stalled —
SFGate: Technology 11/24/2008
Paul McCartney said Monday negotiations on a long-awaited deal to make the Beatles' catalog available on the online music service iTunes have stalled. "The last word I got back was it's stalled at the whole moment, the whole process," the former ...
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