Record Industry Slowly Embraces MP3
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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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The Japanese music industry is making its first steps into the download business, but it has a long way to go before it hits its stride.
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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.
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Record labels including Universal and SonyBMG have begun selling music through a new download service.
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Blog: Some record companies are experimenting with distributing albums on the portable USB devices, but for now the releases are mostly expensive collectors' items.
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Ten thousand songs in your pocket. Millions of tunes on the Internet at your fingertips. And books on tape &#151; they're going down the path of vinyl records. Welcome to the new world of digital audio.
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After years as the unrivalled king of the digital-media world, the venerable MP3 music format is losing ground to rival technologies from Microsoft and Apple.
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Earlier this month, Warner became the first major record label to ask MP3 blogs to play its music. The company's approach did not go as planned.
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Sony is broadening support for the MP3 file format in its portable music player range. It will introduce a new hard disk-based MP3 player in December, and will produce
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DENVER (Billboard) - After 2006 -- a year when virtually no one managed to launch a digital music service in competition with Apple's dominant iTunes -- 2007 was a refreshing change of pace.
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Record labels need the digital  music market to take off. So why aren't they helping it any?
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For years, record labels have been reluctant to release music in unrestricted MP3 formats, but now some music companies are reversing course on the copy protections and playback restrictions originally designed to reduce piracy.
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By Jefferson Graham  LOS ANGELES -- The music industry is looking ahead to life without copy protection.
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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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Hard drive-based audio player will get a new look and a lower price.
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Consumer electronics giant Sony Corp.  said on Thursday it is mulling a major strategic shift to make  digital music devices that play MP3 song files.
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Electronics giant Sony has reversed its position on the formats playable by its range of digital music players. The company has announced its new devices will now be able to play music tracks in the MP3 format