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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
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
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
September 6, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
NBC Doing Just Fine After Apple Break NBC Universal TV content is now available on Amazon Unbox, Amazon.com's digital video download service. |
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
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
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
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
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. |
InternetNews
December 27, 2007 |
Amazon Adds Warner Music to MP3 Downloads Amazon.com has signed on Warner Music Group to its music download service, which aims to compete with Apple's industry-dominating iTunes online store. |
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? |
Home Theater
April 10, 2009 |
iTunes Ditches DRM Apple will eliminate digital rights management from all songs sold through iTunes. |
The Motley Fool
January 28, 2008
Anders Bylund |
Amazon Gets Into World Music Music sales as we know them take another step toward obsolescence, as Amazon.com starts to expand its digital music store to international markets. |
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. |
InternetNews
August 21, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
MTV, RealNetworks, Verizon to Peddle Music MTV is joining with RealNetworks to form a new company, Rhapsody America, whose offering will be the exclusive digital music service for Real and for MTV Networks' premier music and pop culture brands in the United States. |
The Motley Fool
December 5, 2007
Tim Beyers |
Amazon Gives Away a Billion Following the success of a 2004 team-up with Apple in which the pair gave away 100 million songs in 60 days, PepsiCo has inked a deal with Amazon to give away 1 billion songs. |
The Motley Fool
December 27, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Warner Warms to Amazon Warner Music Group becomes the latest big studio to sell DRM-free tunes through Amazon.com. |
InternetNews
February 27, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
iTunes Grabs No. 2 Spot in Overall Music Sales New market analysis from the NPD Group highlights just how far CDs have fallen. |
The Motley Fool
September 28, 2007
Tim Beyers |
Amazon. iTunes. Yawn. Amazon.com begins selling MP3 songs for $.89 each, a strategy that probably won't hurt iTunes, and may even indirectly benefit Apple. |
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
May 23, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Amazon Makes Audiobook Noise Amazon acquires audiobook publisher Brilliance Audio to complement subsidiary CustomFlix offerings. |
The Motley Fool
May 17, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Rock On, Amazon Amazon has made it official, announcing that it will launch a digital music service later this year. Unlike most existing storefronts that sell format-protected tunes, Amazon's tracks will be pure MP3 files. |
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. |
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
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
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. |
The Motley Fool
September 27, 2007
Mac Greer |
Fool Video: Can Amazon Compete With Apple? Whether or not Amazon.com's online music store can compete with Apple's iTunes is the topic discussed in this video. |
Popular Mechanics
September 5, 2007
Glenn Derene |
The iTunes Store... With Subscriptions? Buzzword As Steve Jobs unveiled the new Apple iPod Touch and iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, we wonder what it would take for a DRM-free, flat-rate music store to go from record-label nightmare to user-friendly dream come true? |
InternetNews
October 2, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
You Name the Price for Next Radiohead Album Radiohead tells fans they decide how much to pay in next week's online-only album release. |
PC World
December 1, 2007
Cathy Lu |
Napster, Amazon MP3: Digital Music Done Differently Napster's music-subscription service has a great playlist function; Amazon's MP3 store is easy to navigate and very affordable. |
The Motley Fool
October 1, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Apple 1, Rick 0 Apple will always deserve a premium based on its stylish design and its innovative features, but it's dangerous to assume that the platform will rule forever once free-flowing MP3s dominate the market. |
InternetNews
September 7, 2005
David Needle |
Apple's Big Announcement is Nano Apple announced new shapes and sizes for its wildly successful iPod music player. |
BusinessWeek
March 29, 2004
Larry Armstrong |
E-Tune Shopping With downloading now legit, online music stores have similar catalogs. It's the extras that set them apart. |
The Motley Fool
April 16, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Is Amazon Taking a Bite Out of Apple? Amazon is making headway in digital music, but it will be a long time before Apple needs to worry. |
The Motley Fool
January 15, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Watch Your Back, Mr. Mac PepsiCo will be giving away 1 billion MP3 downloads through Amazon.com. |
InternetNews
August 9, 2005
Tim Gray |
Japanese Have Yen For iTunes Apple takes a bite out of the Japanese online music market. |
The Motley Fool
September 5, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Amazon 1, Apple 0 Apple's loss of NBC shows will clearly be Amazon's gain. Just days after Apple announced that it won't carry new NBC shows for the upcoming primetime season, NBC's programs are already springing up on Amazon.com's fledgling Unbox service. |
The Motley Fool
April 8, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Why'd You Do It, Amazon? Amazon.com matches Apple's music price increase, unfortunately. |
The Motley Fool
December 20, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Amazon Is Ready to Rock Amazon taps the vein of music appreciation with a stake in a music discovery site. Despite Amazon's girth in all things e-commerce, it will be a challenging venture. |
The Motley Fool
February 17, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Amazon Takes a Bite The digital revolution is knocking. Amazon will be rolling out a self-branded media player, along with a music subscription service. Apple will eventually need to muster a response. Investors, take note. |
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. |
InternetNews
July 22, 2010 |
Amazon's Q2 Profits Up, But Stock Takes a Hit Wall Street expected better results, but Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos touted sales from a growing number of mobile devices including tablets and smartphones. |
PC Magazine
February 25, 2009
Jamie Lendino |
Amazon MP3 (Winter 2009) Amazon's online music sells unrestricted music that's high quality, compatible with almost any player, and often cheaper than what it would cost on iTunes... iLike... Lala... |
The Motley Fool
April 29, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Amazon Is a Grand Theft Auto Accomplice If Grand Theft Auto IV becomes a hit Amazon stands to profit not only from video game sales, but from legal MP 3 downloads as well. |
InternetNews
September 5, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
MySpace Helps Musicians Sell Out Now all those MySpace musicians can find out if anyone is actually willing to pay to listen. |
InternetNews
February 7, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
An Apple Flip-Flop on FairPlay? Apple CEO Steve Jobs is calling for music labels to stop selling music encrypted with digital rights management software. |
InternetNews
December 3, 2007 |
Pressure Mounts on Record Labels to Offer MP3s New promotions, successful tests and retailer demands could spell the end of DRM-protected music. |
InternetNews
February 5, 2007
Ed Sutherland |
Apple Inc. Settles with Apple Corps Ltd. Apple Inc. can continue using the "Apple" name and logo with its iTunes 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. |
