Amazon Now Number 2 Online Music Retailer

Amazon has officially climbed into the number 2 spot as an online digital music retailers. According to sales figures from the four major labels, Amazon’s MP3 store, which sells only non-DRM (Digital Rights Management) MP3 files, has become second to iTunes after only 6 months in business. The majors have always wanted a strong competitor to iTunes and only after conceding to strip away DRM, have they been able to establish a...

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Sony BMG Set To Debut DRM-Free Online Music Service

According to Rolf Schmidt-Holtz, CEO of Sony BMG Music Entertainment, the company is currently developing a DRM-Free, online music subscription service that would give users unlimited access to its music and be compatible with a host of digital music players including the Apple iPod. The news was revealed in an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper. As for costs to subscribers, the newspaper quoted him as saying...

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