Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iTS, iTunes

You’ll be hard pressed to find anyone outside of the Music Industry who thinks that DRM is a good thing, and today it looks like more folks in the Music Industry are seeing the error of their ways. Warner Music Group has announced that starting today public can buy their entire digital catalog via Amazon MP3 (see our review of Amazon’s digital music store front here). The rare thing about Amazon MP3 is, as you might have guessed , they only sell music in the MP3 format sans DRM. That’s right, all those lovely Warner Music Group tracks are yours to have without DRM

and, generally, for less than what you’ll pay in the iTunes Store (Amazon MP3 has a sliding scale of prices but most tracks cost $.89 or $.99).

Some might say, ‘Why should I care about that? I’m on a Mac!’ The beauty of that is that these MP3 files will play on your Mac, your iPod, your iPhone, and even that Zune you got in a box of cereal. No DRM means more flexibility in how you can consume your media, and we all like that.

[via Engadget]

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Orginal post by Scott McNulty