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De-DRM Your EMI Tunes Soon at iTunes (and Mine Too, While You're at It)

Hey, whoah, am I reading this correctly? I always said that I'd be willing to pay a few more sheckels for music free of DRM. It's not like I'm burning copies and leaving them at the mall anyway. And I'm certainly not loading them up to the p2p sites. So why penalize me? I mean, I just said I would spend more, didn't I? So it looks as if those guys have been reading my mind lately.

EMI and Apple agreed to a new contract Monday that will see EMI releasing all of its music catalog without DRM restrictions, for a slight premium.The Apple iTunes Music store will sell the unprotected AAC-encoded tracks at double the existing bitrate, or about 256 kilobits per second, for $1.29/€1.29/£0.99. Albums sold will automatically be upgraded to the higher bitrate for the same price, Apple said. If a customer wishes to upgrade his existing EMI music to the higher-bitrate/DRM free version, he will pay $0.30/€0.30/£0.20 per track.

EMI, Apple Add Non-DRM Option to Music Catalog - News and Analysis by PC Magazine

Cool beans. I wonder if I bought any EMI Muzak or if it's all some other RIAA beasty that I should have been boycotting.

Time will tell. Looking forward to the "De-DRM your EMI tunes" button on iTunes.

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