Subscribe by EmailAmazon launches DRM-free music store
September 27, 2007 by Geeks are Sexy | 2 comments
It’s about time a major name in the world of online merchants started selling DRM-free music! Amazon MP3
The store already offers 2 million titles, and as its name implies, the songs are in MP3 format. Amazon MP3 media files are not protected by DRM, so users can play them on any media player they wish, and copy and share them at will.
Music tracks currently sell for $0.89 and $0.99, and albums go for either $5.99 or $9.99
My guess is that with this new service, Amazon is trying to directly compete with iTunes, the number one online music store on the net. iTunes currently has around 70 percent of the online song market in the United States, but I’m sure Amazon MP3
- iTunes abandons flat-rate pricing and DRM protection
- Back up your music CD’s with CDex
- Windows Media DRM cracked… again!
- When DRM Goes Bad, on a Great Game
it’s strange how microsoft isn’t after the money that can be made here, sure they have some links in the media player, but it seems they aren’t really after the money in the music selling area.
Now that isn’t like M$ I thought they were after all money they could make.
Very very good. I would never ever buy DRM’d music. If for no other reason than the principle.