No more DRM music from EMI
Monday, April 2nd, 2007Today EMI music, one of the 4 big music labels (along with Universal Music Group, Sony BMG and Warner Music) revealed in a press release that it will no longer sell DRM music on digital music stores. The first online music store to start selling the premium tracks starting of May from EMI will be iTunes music store from Apple. The DRM free audio tracks will have a double bit rate (256kbps) than previous ones. Customers who bought previous DRM protected tracks from EMI will be able to upgrade for the premium tracks for approx. 0.30 EUR/track. Also the music videos from EMI will be available in an unprotected format with no change in their price. Hoping that the other three record labels will adopt the same decision in the near future. For those who know DRM stands for Digital Rights Management, a protection technology to prevent the illegal use of digital content. Unfortunately for producers this technology has proved that it can not stop preventing the illegal copying and distribution of illegal content and instead caused a lot of incompatibility issues with digital players because a DRM protected content is not capable to be played on any specifical device.