Amazon launches beta version of DRM-free music store
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The online retail giant finally unveils its long-awaited music store. In a double punch to Apple, it's DRM-free--and cheaper.
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Amazon.com and Pepsi toay announced a new promotion where consumers buying Pepsi products will be able to download DRM-free digital music from Amazon MP3.
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Warner Music Group becomes the latest big studio to sell DRM-free tunes through Amazon.com.
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Online retailer Amazon.com Inc said on  Thursday its digital music store will now offer songs by  artists on the roster of Sony BMG Music Entertainment without  copy-protection technology, known as digital rights management.
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Apple made good on its promise to offer DRM-free tracks on Wednesday, launching iTunes Plus with AAC tracks from label EMI.
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Edging cautiously into the water where Amazon, Apple's iTunes, eMusic and other services are already frolicking, Sony BMG Music has announced plans to offer a tiny set of DRM-free tracks online... if you go to one of their brick-and-mortar stores first.
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Or dearer. Or disappear? So last year's " Future of Musicâ¢", the DRM-encumbered digital downloads model pioneered by Apple, has stalled. What now?â¦
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DRM-free MP3s from music label to be sold on US website Warner Music Group is making its music available for download from Amazon in MP3 format without Digital Rights Management (DRM) copy protection, enabling the free sharing of music.â¦
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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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Amazon: "Many of our customers have already discovered that one cheap way to get DRM-free MP3s is to buy them on CD and rip them themselves." Here's a screen shot. It's common-sense advice, but still somewhat remarkable that they're addressing the issue of DRM right there on the home page. It could be that I'm seeing it and you're not (possibly because I just bought a Linux hand-held computer from Nokia). It's hard to tell.  Here's their guide to ripping CDs.
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The world's largest music company will sell restriction-free music downloads at Amazon.com and other online vendors. But not at Apple's iTunes store.
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Amazon.com Inc &lt;AMZN.O&gt; launched an early version of its highly anticipated digital music download store, which is seen as a potential rival to Apple Inc's &lt;AAPL.O&gt; dominant iTunes system.
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It's the end of an era Amazon.com has now secured the right to sell DRM-free music from all four major labels, snagging Sony BMG.â¦
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Company expands its offerings by providing DRM-free music from Warner Music Group.
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Microsoft have made a beta version of their new music store available to the public. The store is entirely browser-based and does not require a separate client like iTunes.
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Along with its library of 2 million songs, Amazon.com is bringing something else to the online music marketplace: competition. When it opened Sept. 25, Amazon's MP3 digital download store undercut iTunes' prices on many albums. Its tracks, most of which sell for 89 to 99 cents, have higher sound quality than standard iTunes tracks and come without copy restrictions - known as digital rights management - that make it difficult to move tracks to a variety of portable devices, including iPods and Windows Media players.
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What will DRM stand for in the future? Opinion Imagine this: a new world standard in music recording. It works like this. You turn the radio on and it downloads four hours of songs in MP3 format. Free.â¦