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InternetNews
August 10, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Best Buy, Universal Join DRM-Free Jam Universal Music Group will make some of its music available without digital rights management software.   |
InternetNews
April 2, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
EMI, Apple Give DRM-Free Music a Go EMI today announced it will make its digital music catalog available to online retailers without digital rights management restrictions. |
InternetNews
August 1, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
DRM Is Not Going Away Digital rights management software, the code tucked into the ones and zeros of your digital music and movies that to prevent piracy, isn't going away anytime soon. |
InternetNews
June 30, 2006
Catherine Pickavet |
French Senate Passes Apple FairPlay Law The French Senate passed a law today that could force Apple to open its FairPlay format, according to a spokesperson with the Computing Technology Industry Association. |
The Motley Fool
February 15, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
DRM May Die? Yahoo! Will online music's digital rights management go the way of the dodo? |
InternetNews
January 11, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
Sony BMG Opens DRM-Free Content to Amazon Sony BMG's move gives Amazon a new boost in its quest to upend iTunes, but where do the record labels' priorities' really lie? |
InternetNews
May 16, 2007
Erin Joyce |
Amazon To Sell DRM-Free Music Amazon.com turned up the buzz meter in the digital music world today with news it plans to launch an MP3 digital music store without digital rights management restrictions on the songs. |
InternetNews
September 25, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Amazon Now Hawks MP3s, Targeting iPod Crowd Amazon's new MP3 music store features what the company characteristically calls "Earth's biggest selection" - over 2 million songs from more than 180,000 artists, represented by over 20,000 major and independent labels. |
InternetNews
March 22, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
A French Crack at FairPlay The French government thinks it's an inalienable human right to be able to play any digital music file on any digital music player, but Apple Computer said such a right could only be part of a "culture of piracy." |
BusinessWeek
February 19, 2007
Cliff Edwards |
Steve Jobs Changes His Tune Why Apple Chief Executive Steven P. Jobs is willing to jettison industry restrictions on copying music and video. |
The Motley Fool
October 17, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Apple Drops the Digital-Music Shackles Apple lowers the price of its unrestricted song files. If a customer can buy a DRM-protected track on iTunes at $0.99 a pop, or pick up a DRM-free version at a sonically superior bitrate, it's an easy choice. |
InternetNews
April 3, 2007
David Needle |
EU: Apple Has Europe in iTunes Cuffs The European Commission has issued a complaint against Apple and major record companies over the way music is sold via Apple's online iTunes store. |
InternetNews
May 11, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
FairPlay Score For Apple in France The French Senate deleted language that Apple said would lead to 'state-sponsored piracy.' |
The Motley Fool
April 2, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Apple Strikes a Chord Apple and EMI are hooking up to promote unlocked digital downloads. Is EMI an unlikely first mover among its major-label brethren? Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
January 24, 2008
Anders Bylund |
Yahoo! Saves the Music Yahoo! is discussing launching the music industry's best chance to wipe out piracy. |
The Motley Fool
January 7, 2009
Anders Bylund |
Apple Boring? No, Brilliant! Many reporters say Apple failed to wow at its final Macworld Expo, but this analyst passionately disagrees. |
The Motley Fool
January 24, 2007
Seth Jayson |
Quick Take: Teflon Steve Wearing Thin in Europe Interesting to see Europe wake up and smell the real monopoly: Apple, iTunes, and the "Fairplay" DRM. |
InternetNews
January 8, 2008 |
Apple Seen Set to Resolve EU iTunes Case Charges that Apple broke European rules by pricing songs country-by-country may soon be ended. |
InternetNews
January 28, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
Amazon Taking Its MP3 Store Global Beginning later this year, Amazon plans to roll out international versions of its DRM-free music store. |
InternetNews
August 4, 2006
Andy Patrizio |
Apple's iPod Faces Battles In Europe Apple's iPod and iTunes may be selling well in Europe, but that's not stopping the governments of the EU from attacking the company over the lock between iTunes and the iPod. |
The Motley Fool
October 3, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Apple Won't Unplug iTunes Unchanged royalty rates keep the virtual doors of Apple's music store open. |
The Motley Fool
May 2, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Apple Sticks With Dollar Downloads Standard pricing for iTunes downloads won't be changing soon. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2007
Tekla S. Perry |
Imagine There's No DRM... I Wonder if You Can Even rock stars rejoice when a major record company takes the locks off digital music. |
Home Theater
April 10, 2009 |
iTunes Ditches DRM Apple will eliminate digital rights management from all songs sold through iTunes. |
Home Theater
August 10, 2007
Mark Fleischmann |
Universal to Test No-DRM Downloads Universal Music Group, the world's largest music label, takes a decisive step away from Digital Rights Managed music, and moves closer to a more open DRM-free download retail environment. |
InternetNews
January 15, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
Amazon, Pepsi Team For Super Bowl MP3 Giveaway Pepsi-Cola and Amazon have teamed up in a promotion to give away as many as 1 billion songs from Amazon MP3. |
Home Theater
July 9, 2007 |
Universal Balks at iTunes Renewal Vivendi's Universal Music Group declined to renew its annual agreement with iTunes, selling content only "at will." |
InternetNews
August 31, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Apple, NBC Fight Over TV Shows NBC said it won't renew its iTunes contract. Apple said 'see ya.' |
InternetNews
August 30, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
Microsoft's DRM Lock a Bit Rusty Microsoft said it has updated its Windows Media digital rights management software to keep it locked. |
InternetNews
April 15, 2004
Ryan Naraine |
Real Seeks 'Tactical Alliance' with Apple RealNetworks boss Rob Glaser makes a startling overture to form a digital music alliance with Apple, citing Microsoft as a competitive threat to standalone entities. |
The Motley Fool
September 26, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Amazon 2, Apple 0 Amazon's new MP3 store aims for Apple's jugular. Anyone who believes that Apple will maintain its gargantuan share of the digital-music world in a year or two has been resting on the mute button for too long. |
The Motley Fool
August 23, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
Wal-Mart's Dissonant Music iTunes doesn't have to worry about Wal-Mart, although heated competition is on the way. |
InternetNews
January 6, 2005
Jim Wagner |
Apple Hit by Lawsuit The plaintiff wants to loosen the ties between the iPod and the iTunes music service. |
The Motley Fool
August 10, 2005
Tim Beyers |
Apple's iTunes Rocks Japan The iTunes Music Store sets another new record. Impressive though that is, Apple's stock remains expensive. |
BusinessWeek
February 2, 2004
Heather Green |
Which Format Will Win? A pitched battle for control of the music-downloading business is raging among Apple, Microsoft, RealNetworks, and Sony. Their weapons: software used to buy and listen to music downloads on computers and portable devices. |
The Motley Fool
August 31, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Amazon.com Cranks Up the Music Amazon, the country's leading online retailer, will launch its eagerly anticipated MP3 store in three weeks. The company will be selling songs in the MP3 format, free of digital rights management. Will it take a bite out of Apple? |
The Motley Fool
July 20, 2005
Alyce Lomax |
Apple of Your Eye? More rumors of video iPods get people buzzing about Apple. Even if Apple unveils such a device, investors need to question whether it will positively affect the iPod's runaway popularity -- or translate into more sales. |
The Motley Fool
March 26, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Apple's 30% Mistake Record labels say some iTunes tracks will cost $1.29 next month. |
The Motley Fool
September 5, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
Back to School: Music's Been Caught Stealing Yesterday and today, college kids and music go hand in hand, although many things have changed. Apple's iPod makes it easy for them to carry their entire music collections everywhere, but how have they obtained that collection? |
InternetNews
July 2, 2007
Andy Patrizio |
Universal, Apple Set To Play Chicken The Universal Music Group, the largest of the four major record labels and a subsidiary of Vivendi SA, is reportedly trying to change the terms of its contract with Apple for selling digital music through the iTunes store. |
The Motley Fool
August 22, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Before You Bite Into That Apple ... Investors, no one is building a better mousetrap than Apple, but a DRM-free world will be loaded with cheaper knock-off mousetraps. With the world's largest retailer and the country's most popular e-tailer nibbling on the cheese, something's going to snap. |
InternetNews
August 6, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Amazon Invests in iTunes Chase Amazon.com has contributed some money to the completion of Series A financing for AmieStreet.com, a digital music store with a demand-based pricing system "propelled by social networking." |
InternetNews
May 30, 2007
Andy Patrizio |
Apple Partners With YouTube Apple struck a deal with Google's YouTube video streaming service to provide originally-created content on Apple TV. |
The Motley Fool
April 17, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
Sony Blunders With DRM Again The electronics giant's zeal to protect copyright punishes customers. If Sony doesn't start rethinking its attitude toward DRM and its effect on consumers, it seems likely the company is going to suffer more negative perceptions. And for Sony investors, that's a real risk to contemplate. |
The Motley Fool
January 9, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
Sony's Non-DRM Dud Sony has decided to begin selling DRM-free digital albums, but consumers will have to clear a few hurdles first. |
BusinessWeek
September 29, 2003 |
Steve Jobs, Apple Apple has broken the logjam and made it possible for the music industry to successfully sell tunes on the Web. |
Wired
November 27, 2007
Seth Mnookin |
Universal's CEO Once Called iPod Users Thieves. Now He's Giving Songs Away. After years of tightening controls on his company's content, Universal Music Group's CEO has become entangled in digital strategies whether he wants to be or not and is planning to unify Apple's competitors in what amounts to a coordinated attack on the iPod. |
PC Magazine
March 14, 2007
Dan Costa |
DRM Is Dead Sure, the RIAA can sue a handful of students each year and shut down a P2P network every six months, but this is just legal Whac-A-Mole. It doesn't solve the problem. |
The Motley Fool
February 14, 2007
Nathan Alderman |
The Serpent in Apple's Garden Now that Apple's moving from music into movies and TV, has the Mac maker begun to jeopardize its success by aligning itself more with the content-creating industry heavyweights -- at the risk of alienating the customers responsible for its current download dominance. |
InternetNews
August 9, 2005
Tim Gray |
Japanese Have Yen For iTunes Apple takes a bite out of the Japanese online music market. |
