gigaom.com - 1/7/2009
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Apple’s announcements at Macworld may have lacked some of the flair and sizzle that CEO Steve Jobs usually brought to his keynote, but there was one announcement that, arguably, will wind up changing the playing field considerably. That announcement is the news of DRM-free sales ...
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
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 ...
mediamemo.allthingsd.com - 1/6/2009
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mediamemo.allthingsd.com —
In 2007, Steve Jobs predicted that half the
music offered at his iTunes store would be sold...
without digital rights management--the lock-and-key system that the music labels wrap their songs--by the end of that year. Better late than never: Apple ...
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Confirmed: iTunes Going DRM-Free. Unclear: Does Anyone Care?
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True Lies of Music Industry [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... It is more like forced evolution of an industry made of technophobes and known to make intellectually challenged moves! ...
iTunes concessions a double-edged sword
mathewingram.com/work —
... DRM-free sales from all of the major music labels through iTunes, and the addition of variable pricing. As rumored during the run up to Macworld, the world’s largest online music store will soon start selling songs for 69 cents, 99 cents or $1.29 each. The only question now, as Peter Kafka notes in a post at MediaMemo, is whether anyone will care or not — and whether it will help to fix any of the music industry’s systemic problems.
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Digital music pricing a giant question mark
Yahoo! Tech Advisors —
... pricing was going to change, with songs soon to be available at 69 cents, 99 cents, and $1.29. On the surface this sounds pretty good, but that's because I, like everyone else, is focusing on the 69 cents part of the announcement. That's a great deal... but you have to wonder how many songs will really be available that cheaply. Obviously the record industry has a different number in mind: The goal clearly being to try to sell the most-purchased music for $1.29. But will that work? GigaOm has an interesting post today about the potential for that 69 cent price point to ...
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After years of fits, starts, threats and ultimatums Steve Jobs and three major labels have come to terms on a deal that will immediately make music available on iTunes without the digital rights management that limits music playback to Apple ...
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iTunes finally goes DRM-free … done anyone really care?
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 ...
French Screenshot Shows DRM-Free Music in iTunes
blog.wired.com 12/15/2008 — Nearly a week after rumors swirled about three major labels letting iTunes to sell music without digital rights management comes evidence of additional experimentation by Apple with DRM-free music -- in France.
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Is iTunes Going DRM-Free?
mashable.com 12/9/2008 — AppleInsider just published a tip they picked up from French technology site ElctronLibre that “asserts that it’s now “clear” Apple will spark new interest in its music store by removing DRM from tracks published by Sony, ...
Apple kills off DRM
blogs.computerworld.com 1/7/2009 — Please, please let this ground-breaking move by Apple be the beginning of the end for all digital rights management.
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Apple iTunes Store goes '100% DRM-free' - allegedly —
The Register 1/6/2009
Schiller keynote makes $1.29 the new black Macworld Expo Take your pick - the iTunes Store is going 100 per cent DRM-free, or Apple is whacking 30 cents onto the price of each song and encouraging you to upgrade your whole iTunes library to ...
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