Comments on: Apple, Amazon may hold future of DRM-free music
Sales of unprotected music at retailers could help determine whether record industry adopts open MP3s.
Most Popular
Latest tech news headlines
- Microsoft's Bach on Courier, Natal, tablets, and phones
January 6, 2010 6:30 PM PST
- Project Natal gets a date, but not a price tag
January 6, 2010 6:30 PM PST
- Live blog: Steve Ballmer at CES 2010
January 6, 2010 6:30 PM PST
- See all headlines
RSS Feeds
Add headlines from CNET News to your homepage or feedreader.
More feeds available in our RSS feed index.
- Markets
Related quotes
- DRM-free music probably won't work
- by aka_tripleB May 20, 2007 10:21 AM PDT
- It took the record labels too long to offer music that can be played on any MP3 player. They for too long pushed customers to illegally download music for free so they wouldn't have to pay the music labels extorted prices and deal with the restrictions they placed on it.
- Like this Reply to this comment
-
Showing 2 of 2 pages (40 Comments)Now you'll be able to download the music without the restrictions, but at a 30.3% markup. Tha'ts probably too high just to get the same thing with no improvements. It's only a matter of time before the go back to downloading the music illegally when they realize that they are spending $0.30 more for 1 song, $3.00 on 10, and $30.00 on a hundred.
This DRM-free is definately not free and it's probably the music industry that's going to lose when no one want to deal with them any more.