OK, not really…. But what would a DRM free music sale mean to Itunes. Clearly with 85% of the digital music market, driving sales of IPODS and Apple’s revenue to new heights. What if DRM becomes irrelevant, would this mean the digital music player market would be blown wide open? Probably, but don’t bet on that happening anytime soon. There is no chance that the music executives, are going to allow this to occur in any meaningful manner. The reality is, if music was available DRM free, the truth is that people would trade music directly, without the further involvement of the record industry. And, that just isn’t part of their plan….
from cnet.com
Yahoo announced Wednesday that it is selling Jessica Simpson’s latest single in MP3 format–in other words, with none of the usual copyright protection coding.
Because the song, a party-pop track called “A Public Affair,” has no digital rights management (DRM) protection coded into it, it will be compatible with just about every type of digital music player, from the iPod to the iRiver, as well as with film- and music-editing programs that may not have been able to read DRM-encoded files…
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