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EMI is selling DRM-free music on the Apple Music Store. ⇒

   2 April 2007, early morning

The songs are higher quality, but sell for $1.29 each. They say they'll put their whole catalog out there. It's a shame they raised the price.

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  1. I think that’s reasonable. If people are willing to pay $1 for a DRM’d track at half the bitrate, then $1.30 isn’t obscene for a DRM-free track. And according to the press release

    Complete albums from EMI Music artists purchased on the iTunes Store will automatically be sold at the higher sound quality and DRM-free, with no change in the price.

    Which gives more incentive, in addition to this, to the purchase of a whole album through iTunes now.

    We’ve almost caught up to 1999’s Napster.

    by haran on April 2 2007, 11:27 am   #

  2. With sites like oink.me.uk we passed Napster a long time back. This is pretty cool though. I’d be willing to pay 10 bucks for an all digital DRM-less album.

    by ramanan on April 2 2007, 11:38 am   #

  3. I suppose I should have said legitimate digital music distribution has almost caught up to the ease of the old Napster…it’s not saying much mind you.

    I refused to purchase through iTunes mainly because I don’t have an ipod. Now that I can transcode songs (well, EMI songs) to any mp3 player, 10 bucks is definitely reasonable for me too.

    by haran on April 2 2007, 5:48 pm   #

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