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p2pnet.net news:- Is having reduced DRM like being a little pregnant?
It’s a toughie.
Anyway, stories saying Amazon wants its own online download store have been bolstered with reports that it’ll happen next month, “and is working on plans to sell music with reduced protection against copyright infringement”.
So says The Times Online, going on:
“The internet giant has approached all the music majors in the past fortnight and said that it wanted to sell unprotected MP3 songs in May as it tries to follow Apple in shaking up the music industry. However, it remains unclear if Amazon will meet its deadline. The internet retailer has been trying, unsuccessfully, over 18 months to break into the market dominated by Apple iTunes, which has a share of about 80 per cent.”
The story also observes, “Selling music without copy protection is controversial, because it makes digitally downloaded songs easier to copy.”
Indeed.
But, if Amazon does launch an mp3 sales site as planned, “music is most likely to come from EMI and independent labels”.
The story doesn’t explain exactly what ‘reduced’ DRM is, or say how much Amazon mp3s will cost. But we can guess.
Also See:
download store - Universal, Amazon mp3 efforts, April , 2007
The Times Online - Amazon set to launch online music store, April 23, 2007
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