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Same Price, Now DRM-Free

Posted at 2:31 PM on October 17, 2007 by Steve Seel (26 Comments)

Apple just announced that they're going to offer DRM-free MP3s at the same price as their regular MP3s on iTunes: $.99 (DRM = "Digital Rights Management" -- the system wherein the seller imposes restrictions on what you can and can't do with the MP3 that you bought). It doesn't appear to be the complete iTunes catalog just yet -- just stuff offered through one massive label, EMI, and a few smaller ones including a few of particular interest to Current listeners, such as Sub Pop and Beggars Group. That's a good start.

Farhad Manjoo at Salon.com has some thoughts on all of this at his Machinist blog (you may have to watch an ad first if you're not a subscriber), where he traces the trajectory of the DRM-free MP3, from Apple to Amazon and back again.

Was this inevitable? Do you care? One thing's for sure: as Manjoo demonstrates, it's another example of the free market forcing a change.

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