Warner Music has decided to offer its complete catalog, free of digital rights management, through Amazon's new MP3 store. EMI, Universal, and Warner now offer their catalogs in DRM-free digital formats, leaving Sony BMG the lone major music giant still clinging to the DRM approach. Amazon now claims to offer for than 2.9 million songs in MP3 format from over 33,000 unique labels.
Now, with the move to MP3, the labels that have chosen to open their music have a way to encourage multiple download services to flourish, keeping labels safe from being dominated by any single digital distributor, namely iTunes.
Friday, January 4, 2008
Some Progress on Music Front, Unless You are Apple
Gary Kim was cited as a global "Power Mobile Influencer" by Forbes, ranked second in the world for coverage of the mobile business, and as a "top 10" telecom analyst. He is a member of Mensa, the international organization for people with IQs in the top two percent.
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