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  • More DRM-Free Major Label Music Sneaks onto iTunes

  • Nov 27, 2008
  • The world's three largest record labels have been negotiating to offer their music without DRM in the iTunes music store for the first time ever, according to Cnet sources who couldn't confirm that the labels had agreed to ditch digital rights manage...
  • Digital Sales Surpass CDs at Atlantic

  • Nov 26, 2008
  • Since MP3s first became popular a decade ago, music industry executives have obsessed over this question: when would digital music revenue finally surpass compact disc sales?For Atlantic Records, the label that in years past has delivered artists lik...
  • Subscriptions to (RED) Wire digital music will fight AIDS

  • Nov 25, 2008
  • The new digital music service co-founded by Bono, which promises fans exclusive music by major artists in exchange for $5 a month to fight AIDS, will launch on the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day. MSN will host Monday's kickoff event for (RED) Wir...
  • Nokia “coming with music” to Asia?

  • Nov 24, 2008
  • Nokia is gearing toward launching its “phone bundled with music” offering to Asia. At the recently held Mobile Asia Congress in Macau, head of entertainment and communities for Nokia China, T C Pan, said they [Nokia] are working on the im...
  • New MacBooks Have HDCP, Gives iTunes Purchases Less Freedom

  • Nov 18, 2008
  • High Definition Content Protection—the annoying DRM-y thing that's supposed to stop people from copying hi-def stuff as it travels over a card-display connector— has apparently, and unfortunately, come to Apple's MacBooks. HDCP is now inc...
  • Datz launches MP3 download deal

  • Oct 31, 2008
  • The first "all you can eat" music download service that lets users copy tracks to any device with no strings attached has launched in the UK.Datz will charge £100 for a USB security key that gives people access to its Music Lounge sit...
  • All you need is a digital guitar to join the Beatles

  • Oct 31, 2008
  • The Beatles made their first foray into digital music yesterday with a video game that will allow fans to play along to their hits.The surviving members of the band have been resistant to new technology, refusing to allow their music to be downloaded...