Macworld is reporting that more EMI tracks are being sold now that they are available in a higher bitrate (better quality) DRM free versions. EMI sales climb on iTunes Plus plan.

Let’s hope that other record labels take note and get rid of DRM. As plenty of other people have noted, DRM only hurts honest customers. [...]

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One of my reasons for switching to a mac was the rumours of the Digital Rights Management (DRM) to be included in the next version of Windows (Longhorn Vista).

A article on CNET News.com appears to confirm this fear, at least for high end high definition video: Hollywood, Microsoft align on new Windows.

I am certainly not [...]

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Buying music from the iTunes store, or napster, or anywhere else for that matter is not ‘there’ yet, for me at least. I’m not sure where exactly ‘there’ is, but what online music stores don’t have is a tangible product, that can be unwrapped, the CD box taken out of it’s decorative sleeve, and the [...]

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