Good news on the music front today.<\/p>\n
After weeks of speculation, EMI announced<\/a> that they will begin selling DRM-free copies of their music. And the first place the new higher-resolution songs will be available will be the ITunes Store<\/a>.<\/p>\n I suspect this is the beginning of the end for DRM’ed music, but it’s probably going to take awhile to trickle through the industry. And it’s worth noting that lower-resolution versions of EMI’s music (through single downloads) on the ITunes store will have DRM. <\/p>\n There’s lots more to come on this issue, but following up on Steve Job’s letter<\/a> about DRM, it’s clear that this issue is starting to go the right way for those of us that enjoy digital music.<\/p>\n Update:<\/b> Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing<\/i> also has this story, along with the most amazing string of links to other posts about it that I’ve seen in a blog post. Take a look!<\/a><\/p>\n Technorati Tags: Good news on the music front today. After weeks of speculation, EMI announced that they will begin selling DRM-free copies of their music. And the first place the new higher-resolution songs will be available will be the ITunes Store. I suspect this is the beginning of the end for DRM’ed music, but it’s probably going […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p88Hib-7H","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1839,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/1839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Apple<\/a>, DRM<\/a>, EMI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"