It's a full hand of cards for Amazon: the Web's mega-retailer announced Thursday that it will be selling music from Sony BMG Music Entertainment in its Amazon MP3 store. This means that Amazon MP3, which only sells "naked" tracks without any digital rights management (DRM) protection, now has deals with all four major music labels. Because of the lack of copy protection, any song from Amazon MP3 can play on virtually any media-playing device, from PCs to music players to cell phones and PDAs.
Sony Goes DRM Free!
This is a remarkable trend we are seeing. I am so glad to see that you can now go to Amazon and buy digital music that will play on ANYTHING. Steve Jobs started this whole trend a few months ago with his open letter to the music industry. Ironically, the record industry has sort of stuck it to him, since only EMI is selling DRM-free music on iTunes.
For those of you that don't know what I am talking about, DRM is the technology in your files bought from iTunes that limits what computers it plays on and how many times you can burn it. Files bought from the Amazon store can be copied to and played on any computer or device that supports MP3. You can burn it to CD as much as you like. Plus, Amazon uses something called variable bit rate when compressing its music, and I think it sounds better. So, why are you still buying from iTunes?
For those of you that don't know what I am talking about, DRM is the technology in your files bought from iTunes that limits what computers it plays on and how many times you can burn it. Files bought from the Amazon store can be copied to and played on any computer or device that supports MP3. You can burn it to CD as much as you like. Plus, Amazon uses something called variable bit rate when compressing its music, and I think it sounds better. So, why are you still buying from iTunes?
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