Sony to offer DRM-free music
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Jan 4, 2008 at 1:37pm
Sony BMG Music Entertainment is finalizing plans to sell songs without the copyright protection software that has long restricted the use of music downloaded from the Internet, reports BusinessWeek. Sony BMG, a joint venture of Sony (SNE) and Bertelsmann, will make at least part of its collection available without so-called digital rights management, or DRM, software some time in the first quarter, the article adds.
Sony BMG would become the last of the top four music labels to drop DRM, following Warner Music Group, which in late December said it would sell DRM-free songs through Amazon.com’s (AMZN) digital music store. EMI and Vivendi’s Universal Music Group announced their plans for DRM-free downloads earlier in 2007.
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dave Says:
This ain’t Apple news. There’s not much chance that Sony will license Apple to sell it’s songs DRM-free. They are desperate for some other vendor to gain marketshare so they can raise prices to over $1/song…
Posted on January 04, 2008