appleinsider.com - 1/6/2009
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In what could be a significant victory for its online music store, Apple is believed to have landed agreements not only to remove copy protection from the music of all major labels but to also allow direct music downloads to iPhones over cellular networks.
news.cnet.com - 1/6/2009
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news.cnet.com —
Apple has cut deals that will finally enable
iTunes to offer songs free of copy protection software
from the three largest music labels, according to two sources close to the negotiations. In exchange, Apple has agreed to become more flexible on ...
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Sources: Apple to expand DRM-free music, new pricing
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
crave.cnet.co.uk - 1/13/2009
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crave.cnet.co.uk —
Apple's iTunes Store is almost completely DRM-free ,
and will be entirely DRM-free from spring. This means
files downloaded from iTunes work on heaps of devices that aren't from Apple. What better way to celebrate the final bullet to the living ...
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iTunes Plus: Everything you need to know
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Apple ditching DRM? 3G iTunes downloads?
CrunchGear —
Looks like the gods at Apple have been listening. People have long complained about Apple’s DRM protection on music available on iTunes and the inability to download songs to the iPhone over 3G (I mean come on). That might change tomorrow.
It seems that Apple has cut a deal with music labels to remove DRM. This might come at a cost though. Songs will now supposedly be sold at variable prices with newer songs and hits selling above the usual 99¢ price and older songs selling for as low as 79¢.
This move could quite possibly could give ...
Apple agrees for DRM-free iTunes, 3G downloads
D' Technology Weblog —
In what could be a significant victory for its online music store, Apple is believed to have landed agreements not only to remove copy protection from the music of all major labels but to also allow direct music downloads to iPhones over cellular networks.
Full Article ...
Macworld Guessing: iPhone Tethering, iTunes Goes DRM-Free
Today @ PC World —
... (ITMS) without any copy protection software attached. The move is said to come following deals with the three largest music labels (Sony BMG, Universal and Warner Music) in exchange of Apple becoming ...
Apple Drops DRM on iTunes Music
Mobilewhack.com —
... will allow us to get music downloads over the 3G air. We will get back to you when the official announcement has been made. Until then we’ll just cross our fingers hoping that nothing will go wrong in the mean time. via AppleInsider Tags: ...
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