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One Million DRM-Free Tracks from EMI

by Tim Stevens on July 25, 2007 at 11:17 AM

EMI Expanding DRM-Free Music AvailabilityDRM, the copy protection intended to keep you from illegally sharing music you download, sometimes just prevents you from listening to the tunes you legally acquired. Back in May, when Apple launched iTunes Plus, EMI gave iTunes DRM-free tracks for the reasonable price of $1.29 a track. Today, EMI has announced a partnership with music distributor MusicNet to make 1 million DRM-free songs from its catalog available elsewhere.

You may not have heard of MusicNet, and that's probably okay with its executives. The company works in the background to provide content to a number of online music sales services like URGE, VirginDigital.com, and Yahooo! Music Unlimited.

With any luck, other record labels will follow suit. Before long, we may all live in a DRM-free utopia, where we're free to listen to our music whenever we want, wherever we want.

From Engadget

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Tags: DRM, EMI, iTunes

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