Warner agrees to use MP3 format
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Warner Music agrees to sell its music for download on Amazon in MP3 format without copy protection.
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The tune seems to be changing ever so slowly at some record labels when it comes to DRM. Both out of consumer demand and to some extent necessity, some have begun to offer digital downloads in the unprotected MP3 format.
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Warner Music CEO Edgar Bronfman isn't singing the same tune as Apple Inc. Steve Jobs when it comes to protecting digital music. Jobs wants to end digital rights management; Bronfman flat out rejected the idea yesterday.
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Amazon.com has signed on Warner Music Group to its music download service, which aims to compete with Apple's industry-dominating iTunes online store.
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Apple yesterday launched its iTunes Plus service which makes selected tracks compatible with virtually any MP3 player.   Songs from record label EMI's digital catalogue can now be downloaded without digital rights management (DRM) anti-piracy technology.
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Partners will bundle Sansa player with Rhapsody to target iTunes and iPod.
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The video-sharing site YouTube agrees a deal with Warner Music giving it legal use of their artists' material.
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Amazon.com  has signed on  Warner Music Group  to its music download service, which  aims to compete with Apple's  industry-dominating  iTunes online store.
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THREE major recording companies have agreed to make their music available to be shared and sold over a new online file-swapping service.
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Warner Music Group has signed a deal to  allow its entire catalog to be played over the fast-growing  social networking music service Last.fm, the innovative site  that links music fans to new and old hits.
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US recording label Warner Music said it was in talks with the phenomenally popular Internet site YouTube to post its artists' song videos online.
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The Recording Industry Association of America has reached a $10 million legal settlement with a Spanish company that briefly offered MP3s online for just pennies a song.
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Sony has seemingly changed its mind on the MP3 music format, deciding that all new players will be able to play MP3s. Before this decision all music players made by Sony used only the company&#39;s proprietary ATRAC format, limiting users&#39; choices somewhat.
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Online retailer Amazon.com Inc. has  signed on Warner Music Group to its music download service,  which aims to compete with Apple Inc.'s industry-dominating  iTunes online store.
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Goodbye, litigation. Hello, partnership Just two months after Warner Music Group sued online media-sharer imeem, claiming copyright infringement, the two companies have announced a rapprochement. That's French for "the big record labels are beginning to like this Web 2.0 thing."â¦
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Microsoft&#39;s WMA, Apple&#39;s ACC, Sony&#39;s Altrac and others -- compete in a variety of digital music devices, support for MP3 is becoming a required ingredient for any successful portable player.
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After years of selling online music digitally wrapped with copy and playback restrictions designed to hinder piracy, major music labels are beginning to make some songs available in the unrestricted MP3 file format.