By rss@youtube.com (jeffmccord) It's Superbowl weekend and we have huge rumors to discuss: a new iPhone is out there, a new Kindle is coming in Feb. and it's the perfect time to buy an HDTV. Also, iTunes changes their DRM-free policy. Keywords: Moxie Mo Show Superbowl HD TV iPhone new next generation Kindle 2 Amazon iTunes mus...

By rss@youtube.com (e5or) Apple added iPhone ringtones to iTunes late last year, but only if you purchased them. After struggling against users for some time, Apple finally started allowing non-DRM'd ringtones in iTunes. This decision spawned quite a few solutions for creating ringtones from songs that you alre...

By rss@youtube.com (amkdeath) Author: amkdeath Keywords: unlock un drm music movies videos m4p m4a mp3 convert change to put on player wma wmv jailbreak tunebite noteburner sound taxi soundtaxi free easy fast iTunes Napster bearshare rhapsody yahoo windows media Added: January 25, 2009

By rss@youtube.com (amkdeath) Common issues people have been having regarding my video on how to remove DRM protection from your music using NoteBurner ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO2BVs... ) Please watch it first before watching this one. Author: amkdeath

By rss@youtube.com (macmostvideo) http://macmost.com/ A look at today's Apple announcements at the MacWorld Expo, including new updates to iLife and iWork, a new 17-inch MacBook Pro, and changes to how iTunes sells music.

By rss@youtube.com (wifiinternetguy) My very first Apple Mac How To! I hope you enjoy it. BTW This is completely legal. Author: wifiinternetguy Keywords: "Music Songs" ITunes Songs Music DRM Added: December 29, 2008

By rss@youtube.com (xwzjgdzg) NoteBurner is able to convert M4P to MP3, convert DRM protected WMA to MP3, and convert WMA to WAV. NoteBurner is a versatile music converter that can be used as MP3 music converter, AAC audio converter, WAV to MP3 converter, M4A to MP3 converter, and RM to MP3 converter. NoteBurner free your...

1 min - 2008-10-10 This video shows you how to remove the Digital Rights Management(DRM) protection from iTunes music.

By rss@youtube.com (MediaPupil) Maybe you might be thinking twice about snagging free songs on the Internet. Maybe you would like to get better quality than what Windows Movie Maker is giving you. Or maybe, you just want more songs than just the iTunes free single of the week (which usually is only an indie single). This video...

By rss@youtube.com (MuahMan) I'm stuck in DRM hell with iTunes and Apple crap. DO NOT BUY MUSIC FROM ITUNES! Use Amazon Music... no DRM. You actually do own it. Get a Creative Labs player so you can do what you want with your music. Author: MuahMan Keywords: iTunes DRM. Added: August 14, 2008

Tech it Out Tech out the Microsoft Coffee Table PC (show video) http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/sticker-shock/video-of-bill-gates-showing-off-his-expensive-table-264453.php The latest iTunes upgrade (iTunes plus) includes DRM free choices by EMI.

Apple unveiled their new iPod lineup. Were looking at a more stout version of the nano with video, 4Gb for $149, the classic has received a slight makeover, and check out the ipod touch. Rumour has it that the price slashing may include iTunes Tv episodes.

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By Thomas Ricker Remember that legal dealio with Apple that erupted after the Norwegian Consumer Council, Forbrukerrådet, read the iTunes EULA? Right, that toothless complaint that waffled on for years until it was finally rendered moot by Apple going DRM-free -- long after Apple benefited from the i...

By Tim Conneally But one of the most exciting things about this release is 7Digital's inclusion in open source media management software Songbird. For music consumers who may not want to be tied to the ubiquitous Apple iTunes for managing their music and media content, Mozilla XULRunner-based Songbird...

By John Herrman The feature, which lets users designate any or all of their content to be available offline, is only available to the £9.99/month or £120/year premium subscribers, but effectively hands them unlimited music, available at all times, for a flat fee. The mobile app is still the showstopper h...

By Joseph L. Flatley Did you hear the news? Apple "resurrected" the LP! It turns out that a complete reversal of millions of music lover's listening habits has been accomplished by throwing some images, videos, interviews, and DRM-free 256Kbps AAC audiofiles into a WebKit package playable in iTunes. OK, so...

By Nilay Patel With the introduction of the iTunes Music Store, Apple brought the business model of buying music online to the masses at 99 cents a song. iTunes changed the dynamic of the music business: consumers re-discovered the single and no longer had to buy a whole CD to get the one song they might wan...

Apple has launched a Mexican version of the iTunes Music Store, opening up digital music sales to the country. All tracks are DRM-free, as in the US, but cost a universal 12 pesos individually, though album prices may vary. Music videos cost approximately 24 pesos each. The Mexican iTunes St...

 NY DRM is currently being used for distribution of video content in a number of business models, whether that's Netflix, Amazon or iTunes -- so as you look at the spectrum... I think the business models continue to evolve." Cary noted there are a few ...

While Apple didn't point any fingers, it's hard to believe the warning wasn't directed right at the Palm Pre, which shows up as an iPod when connected to iTunes and allows you to sync non-DRM media to the smartphone. Palm isn't taking it lying down and ...

PreCentral points out that it's "mighty silly, given that all of the music in the iTunes Store is now DRM-free and Apple has no reason to be kicking people out of their happy little ecosystem." Macworld's Philip Michaels took a different view, ...

 CA iTunes kind of feels like Sam Goody to me. I don't feel cool when I go there. I'm tired of seeing John Mayer's face pop up. I feel like I'm being hustled when I visit there, and I don't think their product is that great. DRM, low bit rate, etc. ...

Macworld UK Apple iTunes store). There are plenty of songs in your music library, but no way to make ringtones from any of them. Rihgt? Actually, with a little bit of trickery (nothing illegal) you can create ringtones from any one of your non-DRM songs. ...

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DRM has prevented people from, for instance, buying a track on iTunes and playing it on their non-Apple MP3 player. Apple says that by the end of March, its entire catalogue of 10 million songs will be available without the added DRM. ... Apple bows out of Macworld with a fizzle WA today

 Australia Every song on the iTunes Stores is an iTunes Plus song. iTunes Plus songs are all free of burn limits and digital rights management (DRM). So in addition to playing on iPods and iPhones, the music you buy will work on many other digital music players. ...

 Texas There's excellent integration with iTunes, making your cloud-stored music appear local. I especially like the audio streaming support in the iPhone app — if your library has DRM-free music like mine does, you can stream tunes from the cloud to your ...

 TX CDs that you rip and add to the library are probably in MP3 or AAC format, the two formats most used in iTunes. Songs that you rip are not protected with DRM (digital rights management). DRM is encryption that keeps you from buying a song online and ...

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There's also an increased emphasis on experimentation and better legal alternatives, which have finally started to hit the marketplace over the last year—services like Amazon's music store, DRM-free iTunes, Spotify, Hulu, and Epix.

In the last decade, iTunes, Amazon, and various subscription music services have demonstrated there's a vast audience more than willing to pay for entertainment downloads given the right mix of value and convenience, though pricing and freedom from DRM ...

They have the hottest and most used device used to consume digital music, but it is locked down to their format and only through their iTunes store. We need the formatting to be one universal standard format, with a standard set of DRM (digital rights ...

But that was almost 10 years ago, and now that the recording industry has come around to the idea of selling DRM-free tracks on iTunes, Amazon, ... and more »

 CA Users can then select and non-DRM tracks to copy back to their computer. The new release has fixed a crash that was related to iTunes 8.2 and can also covert any colon characters in a filename to underscores. [Download - 0.4MB] MovieChapterizer 3.0 ...

zoom in and flip through facility, display of text messages at the bottom of the screen, combined messaging enabled by IM window of text based conversations, built-in camera and flash, music player, transfer of DRM-free iTunes music, podcasts, ...

 CA Businesses were pressured into using DRM which ultimately crippled and bankrupted a number of music services. The only major survivor in the DRM push was iTunes, but even iTunes have distanced themselves from their DRM model. ... Time to slay Canada's file-sharing myths Canada.com

 CA Meshkin believes the major labels are supportive of Bopaboo's plan, even though it will earn them less money per song than iTunes does, and the music will not be restricted by digital rights management (DRM) technology. The labels might be willing to ...

Sony still needs to figure out how to create an iTunes-like experience. Now that iTunes has DRM-free music, users can download songs from Apple's store and add them to their Walkmans, but that's not nearly as convenient as downloading songs directly ... Sony Android Walkman Coming PMP Today

pulpTunes supports MP3 and AAC files, so it can even handle your DRM-free downloads from the iTunes music store. Additionally, the app supports iTunes DJ, ... and more »

the files are automatically added to your iTunes library.? by Wallie502 June 9, 2009 9:27 AM PDT Also, you can download a song from iTunes (without DRM) ... and more »

  Canada DRM has become a contentious point amongst, well, pretty much anyone who uses the internet. It refers to how rights holders enforce the use of their content, used up until recently for digital music sold by iTunes and Walmart. Led by Sean Cranbury, ...

Informitv  CA That was a bigger deal in the years before every song on iTunes went DRM-free, but many users (myself included) have never paid the 30 cents a song needed to upgrade their older libraries — so DoubleTwist still has a purpose, if you for some reason ...

And now that the iTunes Store sells DRM-free AAC tracks, those will also play natively on the Pre. Since the Pre works with Google Calendar and Contacts, you can export your Palm Desktop PIM data—or your local Outlook data—and then import it into ...

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He came up with a way that lets users copy music from iTunes that is DRM-free–without so-called digital rights management software that limits unauthorized copying–onto non-Apple devices. The software also lets users manage their music for all of their ...

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And your DRM'ed iTunes songs won't make it over either, but your MP3 and DRM-free ones will. 7) Facebook and Google sync well. Not only does it have push Gmail, there's something called Synergy that grabs your Facebook and Google contacts and merges ...

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It was true that iTunes version 8.1 broke the ability to import DRM-protected content, which persisted through all the 8.1.x versions of iTunes as well. Luckily the iTunes 8.2 update seems to fix this so we recommend you apply the update if you are ...

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Last week, news broke that the Palm Pre is able to sync with iTunes, allowing for easy loading of DRM-free media. At the time, Apple DRM expert Jon Johansen surmised that the Pre must be emulating an iPod by transmitting Apple-specific vendor and ...

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As it turns out, Johansen knows quite a bit about how iPods and iTunes work together. In addition to reverse engineering CSS, he also developed software called QTFairUse that could strip the FairPlay DRM from iTunes tracks. And, his current company, ...

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 CA claimed that moving to DRM-free downloads revitalized the label's sales of digital full albums, as opposed to singles, contradicting the industry's fear that users would cherry-pick fewer tracks in the iTunes age, leading to less revenue per sale. ...

 KY The iTunes kiosk would effectively eliminate that step. Apple's approach to DRM and its proprietary iTunes/iPod connection remains a sticking point for many, however. "Apple is the 800-pound gorilla of digital content delivery, but their strategy is ...

In a little-noticed statement that accompanied his comments, Palm said that media sync is a feature of the Pre's WebOS that "synchronizes seamlessly with iTunes, giving you a simple and easy way to transfer DRM-free music, photos and videos to your ...

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The only key feature missing from what Palm has done is you cannot play DRM encrypted files. iTunes now gives you the ability to unlock all of your DRM'd files for 30 cents a song, and of course any CD's that you own and are ripping shouldn't be ... Palm Pre syncs with Apple's iTunes Cnet Asia

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 Bronxville This isn't that different from how the iTunes DRM works.) Publishers do have the option to lock content to the single purchasing device if they wish. But at least some publishers appear not to be fully aware of how this works. ...

 CA Music Giants Chapter 11 bankruptcy, HD Giants, Music Giants, Apple iTunes Music Store, DRM Free music, 1080p downloads. Subscribe to HomeTheaterReview.com's Weekly Newsletter to get the latest news, reviews and insight on the world of home theater, ...

 FL First, it seems like the sound quality of iTunes music, despite being a newer technology, is just not as good as a CD. Maybe it isn't that big of a deal to some people, but the whole DRM thing bothers me. But that really is a topic for another whole ...

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to continue support through 2011, and Yahoo (NASD: YHOO) offering to refund the song purchases. While songs sold at Apple's (NASD: AAPL) iTunes Store are now DRM-free, the company has given no indication that it intends to discontinue support for them.

PC World  CA as far as they are concerned, so perhaps there will be no "official" issue here. by orangeneptune June 2, 2009 4:11 AM PDT First - Apple doesn't mind the revenue that comes from non-iPod users buying DRM-free music from iTunes. ...

PC World  NY Apple is rumored to be making this switch to tighten down on applications being downloaded to multiple devices--devices that the user doesn't own nor control--so that users cannot "share" applications with others using the same iTunes account DRM on ...

PC World Microsoft's Live ID authentication system for DRM seems more generous at this time, allowing users to share applications on up to five devices that they own ... Apple Bans RSS Reader Due To Bad Word In Feed LinkSlashdot iTunes 8.2 preps for new iPhone firmwareCNET News

as high as the original rate of 128 kbps) and made them all DRM-Free via their iTunes Plus Store, they also raised the price of an MP3 to $1.29 a piece. ... and more »

Now that iTunes Music Store, Amazon and eMusic is pretty much DRM free Sony should just provide the hardware experience and let PSP users get their music from others that seem to be able to do a better job of delivery. Sony should sign a deal with ...

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 UK for a specific international BBC iPlayer, but audiences can watch BBC content outside the UK through numerous BBC Worldwide content deals with online partners such as iTunes." One of the main reasons iPlayer works for the BBC is because of its DRM. ...

They can do that easily, however, by dragging and dropping their DRM-free music from anywhere on their computer to any supported device. Palm doesn't need to use iTunes at all, and Rubinstein's claim, while admirable in its fair-use sentiments, ...

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 UK Despite all the major labels signing up to DRM-free distribution on iTunes, Amazon and other stores, they still haven't agreed deals with eMusic. That's about to change according to the New York Times, which says Sony Music Entertainment will announce ...

 CA Ultimately, it caused much disturbance mainly due to the fact that the DRM servers would be shut off, effectively terminating any purchases made by consumers that involved DRM. This left two giants left in the market: iTunes, which enjoys a ...

The move also, once again, raises the viability of DRM. Indeed, iTunes has been seen as evidence that DRM-based music stores can exist, but the down side is the fact that the music store also maintains a monopoly on the digital music store market for ...

by kajaman on Sun 31st May 2009 10:55 UTC We used to sell crap. It had unfamiliar interface and serious compatibility issues. You couldn't run iTunes on it. You couldn't play your DRM-encrypted porn. Now, we realized our mistakes. ...

If someone already uses iTunes, chances are they have some quantity of DRM-free iTunes Plus music on their computer. There's no technical reason why the music shouldn't be easily playable on the Pre. One of the upshots of removing DRM in the iTunes ...

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 CA Now, it depends on your level of cynicism as to how you interpret the details, but those who feel generous suggest that variable pricing is necessary in order to cover the cost of making iTunes music available to customers DRM-free. ...

Could Apple force Palm into the sort of arms race that RealNetworks experienced when it tried to reverse-engineer iTunes' DRM scheme? Matt Rosoff is an analyst with Directions on Microsoft, where he covers Microsoft's consumer products and corporate ...

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 Netherlands Easily drag and drop content directly from Windows Media Player and iTunes (excludes iTunes-DRM). - Listen for longer with an incredible battery life of up to 40 hours. - Use Windows Media Player 11, Windows Explored or iTunes to transfer your content ...

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 Canada As expected, all of this content will have DRM protection, which means they will work on PCs, Macs, Apple TV (for TV viewing), iPhones and iPods (nano and touch, naturally). Pricing still varies for other shows on the other networks, with some episodes ...

 NY Simply connect Pre to your PC or Mac via the USB cable, select 'media sync' on the phone, and iTunes will launch on your computer desktop. You can then choose which DRM-free media files to transfer," the company says today in a press release. ...

By Darren Murph We'd already heard through the gravevine that iTunes support would be baked into Palm's forthcoming Pre, but now it's official. During Palm's D7 keynote today in Carlsbad, Paul Cousino showed attendees that non-DRM music, photos and videos could be synced with the Pre via iTunes (on Mac...

 CA Interesting, using media sync the Pre does indeed sync with iTunes, though it's hamstrung by Apple's DRM protected songs. Can't imagine Apple's too happy about that. Presumably, Apple legal is already drafting a letter. Pre appears to make iTunes think ...

Apple has been under pressure by the EU for iTunes and DRM for a long time... now that Apple has removed most of it's DRM, the EU has sort of pulled their panties out of their crotch and moved back to Microsoft... but it is funny how Apple can do the ...

By Darren Murph There's been no direct confirmation just yet, but Fortune has it that Palm's hotly anticipated Pre actually syncs with iTunes. Yeah, iTunes. According to the report, the Pre works "seamlessly" with iTunes on a Mac, with the only notable limitation being that it can't handle older DRM-lac...

By Jesus Diaz The fact that the Pre can't reproduce protected ACC songs is not really that important. Even taking aside the fact that most people have MP3 libraries, iTunes Plus is DRM-free. The only important "but" is if Apple decides to change something in iTunes to make impossible for the Pre to synchr...

Related:EC Still Pushing For Cross-Border Digital Content Retail, Licencing EU Wants DRM Interoperability, Cross-Border Licensing To Bolster Content Sector Music Royalty Reform Delays 'Hold Back' Labels; A DRM-Free Price War European Patchwork A ...

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It ranges from sueing fans for hosting websites about Apple, tie-ins with iTunes, DRM, using open source but not giving (much) back, mobile phones that need ridiculous expensive contracts with single vendors, ad hoc decisions who is allowed to develop ...

The MP3 files are of good quality, DRM-free (though, like iTunes content, are watermarked), and compatible with iPods, iPhones, and Apple TVs. And if you choose to not purchase another track per month from Napster, at the very least it gives you the ...

Burn the iTunes M4P playlist to make an audio CD. You cannot select the "MP3 CD" option since it requires the DRM protected iTunes M4P files be converted to MP3 or WMA files for Windows Media Player. 3. After the audio CD is successfully burned, ...

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4) Syncing media: Syncing ripped or purchased media between multiple computers has always been a headache with iTunes, iPods, and iPhones, due to DRM concerns and technical issues. On Apple's iPhone forum, there are complaints that the iPhone's iTunes ...

Just last week, Microsoft was seen touting its Zune Pass subscription as cheaper than the iTunes Store. Now, music-sharing site Napster is back with a new plan to appeal to consumers. The new offering will cost consumers US$5 a month for unlimited ...

 PA With iTunes tracks selling as high as $1.29 now, you're getting Napster tracks for $1 each, plus free streaming. -The tracks you keep are DRM-free MP3's, so they'll work with your iPod or iPhone. I fully intend to hop on this train. Do you?

Times Online  CA There's an ugly word that needs to be mentioned here, too: DRM. Scribd Store lets publishers choose whether they want to manage their digital rights (which translates as: cripple the user's digital rights) by adding DRM to PDF or ePub documents, ...

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Telegraph.co.uk  CA But one tricky thing about this on the iPhone is its close ties with iTunes, which means that many of its users probably have some DRM-protected music, which won't work over Imeem's streaming service. But I assume the new iTunes Plus, DRM-free variety ...

In particular, Apple objected to content that gave instructions on how to hack away at built-in DRM code in the iPhone and iPod to allow the devices to interact with unauthorized (ie, anything but Apple's iTunes) music services. ...

I am a heavy torrenter myself but I love a site like amazon with their great deals..and ITunes has always suck with their DRM monopoly for a decade. So I don't think linking to a competitor will not solve the issue, because there are no decent service ...

 NY circumvent Apple's app DRM to run non-sanctioned applications. Microsoft could definitely use its position as the non-exclusive application distributer through Windows Marketplace to entice developers. Marketplace offers many benefits of the iTunes ...

CNET News  UK - Amy-Mae Elliott Other new features in the software update include the ability to set alarms to wake to music, set timers to turn off music automatically, playback of DRM-protected Microsoft WMA files as well as full support for iTunes' DRM-free AAC music. ...

Billboard reports that there's already evidence that the recent change to song pricing in iTunes may have hurt sales of individual songs. On Tuesday, April 7th, Apple announced that all digital rights management (DRM) had been removed from music sold ...

 CA its success in monetizing music via the iTunes store and iPhones has shown that users are willing to pay for content that can be pirated when purchasing and sharing are made easy. Recently, Apple dropped DRM protection on music downloads, ...

iTunes' new variable pricing: What do you think? Entertainment Weekly paidContent.org - Amazon May Be Gaining Traction In The MP3 Market Washington Post iTunes goes DRM-free, but jacks up pricing National Business Review Boston Herald - PC World

 CA Their method involves removing the DRM copy protection and burning the resulting file to a DVD using a couple of shareware applications, namely Tunebite for DRM removal and Aimersoft DVD Creator to burn the DVD. We're not keen on the cost of the ...

 CA It’sa similar situation because while you could buy MP3s from Amazon that would work on Apple devices, the process to do so was more laborious than just buying them from iTunes. I should know — before iTunes recently went DRM-free, I bought all my ...

 CA Whoever would have predicted that iTunes would generate more revenue than the entire music industry? Due to recent market pressure iTunes recently removed its DRM, so even iTunes is feeling the pressure of technology on its business model. ...

Why people go nuts over DRM and then use closed-source clients doesn’t make sense to me. Closed source is just the most basic form of DRM. It limits what you and others can do with the software, and you are solely dependent on the software provider for ...

I really like the Genius feature in iTunes, it seems to be one of the best systems for recommending new music I may like. And now with all of iTunes going DRM-free, the one-click buying system using the Genius sidebar in iTunes is already taking its ...

By John Herrman iTunes nowadays will only directly sync with Apple products, but we're a gadget site, so we sought out a few apps to make syncing your iTunes library with other devices as painless as possible: • iTunes Agent: Almost the same as iTunes Sync. If that app fails you, you might have better luck wi...

 CA Vevo seems more likely to make money than a pay-to-download plan (not that YouTube can’t pursue both), since the labels will likely force YouTube to cripple the downloads with the same digital rights management (DRM) that iTunes is finally eliminating. ...

All of its songs were digital rights management (DRM)-free, while only a minority of iTunes tracks were. But at Macworld in January, Apple finally leveled the playing field by announcing that by the end of the first quarter of 2009, all of the tracks ...

 CA Though, to be fair, it finally did cave into the industry’s demand for a three-tier pricing structure for iTunes, which should go into effect shortly. Of course, the music labels had to use perhaps their last big bargaining chip to get that: DRM-free ...

By rss@youtube.com (MeetTheMac) This is a method when you have protected music files on your itunes library and you want to make it DRM free or unprotect it. Unprotecting it gives you the access to put the music on an MP3, PSP, cell phone, or even use it in a youtube video(but that is against copyright laws). Hope this helps, PLE...

Wired News  CA I could certainly see the music labels wanting to offer the option of downloading its music videos, perhaps for the $1.49 - $1.99 price that they sell for on iTunes. DRM isn’t as big of an issue for those, as some of the labels have also dropped DRM ...

 CA - Aside from some music videos, all of iTunes video content has DRM, even with the music side of the service getting rid of it. Get used to it, ...

 CA - Feb 5, 2009 Apple marketing head Phil Schiller announced the Silicon Valley firm would drop its DRM-based FairPlay technology in favor of iTunes Plus. ...

 CA - Feb 2, 2009 Some customers complain iTunes was charging the full price of an album (usually $10) instead of 30 percent to upgrade to iTunes Plus. The DRM removal ...

PC World  CA - In a related development, Apple has dropped its all-or-nothing conversion of DRM-based purchases to the copy-protection free iTunes Plus format. ... RE[2]: Abitrary and unfair OS News Gears of War DRM screwup makes PC version unplayable ITvoir

Washington Post  CA - Even better, the song is available in the iTunes Plus format, Apple’s DRM-free format. At Macworld a couple of weeks ago, Apple announced that all tracks in ... U2’s ‘Get On Your Boots’ Free For Everyone To Listen eFluxMedia all 593 news articles

By Wilson Rothman You're snickering. Not about the baseball bat (I hope), but about the whole spending-money-on-iTunes thing. Yep, I am a recovered iTunes DRM-music-buying addict. I still pay for music, but now Amazon is the legitimate source of all my thankfully DRM-free impulse buys.

Apple has finally bid goodbye to DRM (mostly), but if you want to play your tunes on other devices, you'll need to convert them first.

In what could be the final nail in the coffin of digital-rights management for music tracks, Apple on Tuesday announced a deal with Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, Warner Music Group, and EMI, along with thousands of independent labels, to offer music files on its iTunes Store without D...

By erica.sadun@arstechnica.com (Erica Sadun) The iTunes Store migration to DRM-free tracks isn't due to finish until April. You might want to slow down and wait to see how this change pans out before you upgrade, though. Read More...

By Peter Cohen During yesterday's keynote address at Macworld Expo, Apple made three significant changes to its iTunes Store. Undoubtedly the biggest news is that Apple will finally stop selling music with its FairPlay Digital Rights Management (DRM) restrictions.

By Andy Carvell Apple is now offering DRM-free versions of music tracks via ‘iTunes Plus’ and has introduced a 3-tier pricing model. The announcement at the MacWorld conference confirmed recent speculation about the move to drop DRM.  8 million of the 10 million tracks in the iTunes catalog will be avai...

About eight million songs from major labels to be DRM-free

The RIAA has been backing away from lawsuits. This deal with Apple might explain why they have been doing that," said Phil Leigh, senior analyst at Inside Digital Media. "Apparently the RIAA was negotiating a big deal with iTunes to sell DRM-free tracks. It seems to me like the RIAA has accept...

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The RIAA has been backing away from lawsuits. This deal with Apple might explain why they have been doing that," said Phil Leigh, senior analyst at Inside Digital Media. "Apparently the RIAA was negotiating a big deal with iTunes to sell DRM-free tracks. It seems to me like the RIAA has accept...

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By info@brighthand.com Apple announced today that the entire iTunes library will be available without the unpopular restrictions on copying files that were previously in place. This music store also put in place a new pricing strategy.

By jovbon1 As the world biggest multimedia data resource iTunes has sold out about 6 billion songs by now and about 75 million accounts has been registered on it.  As the first music selling channel in America, what will be changed in 2009 for iTunes?

By Talez Who would have known that that the death of DRM would come in the form of a press release? While MP3 stores are nothing new, with iTunes moving to a 100% DRM free catalog by the 31st of March this now cements a de facto standard of DRM free music in the marketplace. As a side effect it's now a near ce...

By The Huffington Post News Editors SAN FRANCISCO — Apple Inc. closed its final appearance at the Macworld trade show Tuesday by cutting the price of some songs in its market-leading iTunes online store to as little as 69 cents and disclosing that soon every track will be available without copy protection. More on Apple

By Paul Biba At the keynote address of the Macworld Expo, Apple announced that iTunes will go DRM-free on 8 million iTunes songs as of today. By the end of the quarter the remaining 2 million songs will be DRM-free, making the entire catalog available without DRM. You can read Macworld’s coverage of the k...

News from the Macworld Expo - iTunes is in the final stages of shedding DRM, offering some eight million of its 10 million songs in Apple's iTunes Plus DRM-free format. But does anyone care? Is there anyone who is still concerned about DRM buying anything from the iTunes store? by...

By Bobbie Johnson Apple today announced that its entire iTunes music catalogue will soon be available without any copy protection, after agreeing a new deal with the world's major record labels. By the end of the quarter all 10 million songs will be DRM free in iTunes and iTunes plus," said Phil Schiller, Ap...

By Cory Doctorow Looks like Apple's going to drop the DRM on the music in the iTunes store -- but there's no indication that the DRM that's too evil to be borne for music will be likewise dropped from audiobooks and video. Right now, Apple will only sell audiobooks from Audible -- and Audible will only sell aud...

Apple has announced three significant changes to its iTunes Store at Macworld Expo, but the first is undoubtedly the biggest...

By John Gruber As of two minutes ago, it appears you can now buy music from iTunes from your iPhone over EDGE and 3G, not just Wi-Fi. Even better: all the music in the store appears to be DRM-free now. I’m guessing Phil Schiller will announce it later on in the keynote. Maybe this is the “one more thing”?

At Macworld 2009 in San Francisco, Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of marketing, announces a new music price plan and an expanded selection of digital rights management-free songs in its iTunes Store. Users will be able to strip their...

By Daniel Kreps • Apple Reveals New iPod Nano, iTunes Update Apple reportedly has signed a deal with three more major labels to bring more DRM-free MP3s to their iTunes digital music store. The announcement of the deal with Sony, Universal and Warner Music is expected to be the centerpiece of today’s Macw...

By David Rothman Reminder: Apple plans to let ScrollMotion use Apple DRM on e-books in SM’s format. Speak up! Also put in a word for ePub. Do we really want Steve Jobs rather than the IDPF setting e-book standards? Related: Techmeme roundup on iTunes’ new DRM-free arrangements.

By Jemima Kiss It might not have escaped your notice that the annual Macworld conference is underway in San Francisco, prompting various speculation about a likely 17" MacBook Pro, more on the Mac Mini, an expansion of the DRM-free music on the iTunes Store and a slew of new iPhone apps.

By charles.cooper@cnet.com (CNET.com) Macworld--the last Macworld with Apple as a participant--got under way in San Francisco on Tuesday, with Apple unveiling plans to expand DRM-free tunes. CNET News' Greg Sandoval, who broke that story Monday, also talks about Apple's plans to roll...

By treesing If you have moved from Apple iPod to Microsoft Zune, you probably have some songs that you purchased from the iTunes Music Store that you would like to move to the new device. You will run into a hurdle if you try to transfer the files directly as Apple's copy protection prevents the song from p...

Abandoning the AirPort Express for the time being, I turned to another device that could stream audio: my Apple TV. I still haven't purchased a high-definition television, so the Apple TV was connected to an LCD display upstairs in my office (see "DRM Foils iTunes Rentals for Some Apple TV...

By Ryan Here are the app’s main features that we wanted to be sure to highlight: Convert DRM Media such as DRM WMA, WMV, M4A and M4B, M4P, M4V (iTunes), so that you can remove DRM license from protected Media Video music without any restrictionsCompletely supports the conversion of DRM media (aud...

By David Rothman But now it’s back without any new tracks or information. It seems to me that Apple is clearly working on this area, but it doesn’t appear to be set for a new launch yet. Perhaps this is because when Apple does unveil the remaining studios selling DRM-free music, basically the whole of iTunes wi...

By Jack Schofield The three key advantages over Apple's iTunes Store are: 1) Amazon provides unprotected MP3 files that will play on almost any device (iTunes mainly sells DRM-encumbered AAC* files), that you can easily move between devices without restriction, and that will work forever;

By David Rothman Stanza for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch is available today as a free download from the iTunes App Store or from Lexcycle.com. Users can immediately browse and purchase electronic books for Stanza from Fictionwise by visiting the “Stanza by Fictionwise” eBook Store in Stanza’s built-i...

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Play itunes purchased music video files on Zune, ZEN, Cell Phone. ITunes DRM files include AAC, M4V, M4P, M4A, this article will show you how to play itunes music video on any Apple inco.. more ». Microsoft news, tips and tricks search ...

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This tutorial page takes about how to free remove DRM from iTunes 8 music and add iTunes protected AAC (M4P) music to non-Apple MP3 players.

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By lotech Add to this that one of the killer new features, Netflix, is of course tied and limited to North America. I can't imagine Microsoft working with other companies to offer other markets to offer alternatives. Of course if Apple can offer movies via iTunes NZ then I'm sure Microsoft will planni...

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By Jon p2pnet news view Music | DRM:- Get stuffed, Apple boss Steve Jobs has told Norway. Response from Apple? Zip. “The announcement follows the passing of a November 3rd deadline that Mr. Thon had given Apple to comply with his country’s demand that Apple open up iTunes downloads to all players.”

How to convert iTunes 8 protected AAC(M4P) music to MP3 with TuneClone. More than two months ago, I wrote a tutorial entitled How to convert DRM protected iTunes M4P music songs to MP3. In th.. more » ...

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Below is the step by step tutorial about how to transfer DVD movies and TV shows, videos, YouTube and Google videos, iTunes DRM protected music to Microsoft Zune. Before getting started, let's take a.

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It is very easy to create free ringtones for your iPhone 3G using only iTunes and songs you already have on your computer. This tutorial shows how to perform step by step. It only works with songs that are DRM free. ...

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By Adam Frucci The Walmart MP3 store has always seemed like the third wheel of online music stores behind Amazon and iTunes. Sure, it offers up DRM-free MP3s, but it only worked for Windows users on IE, which limited its appeal. But now, Walmart has finally added support for Mac and Linux users, as well as Fi...

This articles details how to remove DRM from iTunes music, convert iTunes protected AAC(M4P) to PSP MP3 and transfer iTunes playlist to Sony PSP.

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By dudude This article details how to burn DRM encrypted iTunes music to MP3. Shown are the way of using real CD disc and that of virtual CD drive.

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By yarseeeed You can use it to move your library of M4P DRM protected music to the MP3 format that you can use on any player out there worth its salt. You can learn how to remove DRM from iTunes M4P music from following guide: ...

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There is a step by step guide remove the DRM protection and to burn DRM protected iTunes videos/movies/TV shows to DVD playable on home DVD player and enjoy on the widescreen TV. What you need to do are just two steps: ...

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By Paul Biba iTunes continued to grow in terms of awareness, usage, familiarity, and ‘best brand’ mentions. Amazon had a strong first year, with initial awareness, usage, favorability and ‘best brand’ ratings comparable to any of the top brands after iTunes. Moreover, Amazon actually matched iTun...

This video shows you how to remove the Digital Rights Management(DRM) protection from iTunes music. www.howcast.com

You can use it to move your library of M4P DRM protected music to the MP3 format that you can use on any player out there worth its salt. You can learn how to remove DRM from iTunes M4P music from following guide: ...

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Topic: How to Remove DRM from Itunes Music on Win (then Edit in Windows Movie Message: Since iTunes store tops the music retailer in the world, the following tutorial focuses on how to convert purchased iTunes M4P music to MP3, ...

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How to Remove DRM from Itunes Music on Win (then Edit in Windows Movie Maker) and Mac Since iTunes store tops the music retailer in the world, the following tutorial focuses...

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You can do this to any song with the exception of those that are DRM protected in iTunes. Check out the Cnet video below on how to create ringtones in iTunes for your iPhone for FREE. Posted: October 7, 2008.

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By iphonegeek Now there is one more addition, iTunes 8. Yes you can actually create free ringtones using iTunes. CNET carried out a article and video on how to do that. Steps : 1. Find an MP3 (not AAC or anything with DRM [ie not bought, ...

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By Christen da Costa Hit the video after the ‘leap’ for the demonstration or read my break down below on how to make a custom iPhone ringtone, totally free, using JUST iTunes 8. Find an MP3 (not AAC or anything with DRM [ie not bought, except Amazon]) ...

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By Amit You may use iTunes to convert any MP3 song into an iPhone ringtone provided the song file is not protected by DRM. This means the technique won’t work with iTunes store music but is perfect for creating ringtones from songs that you ...

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By Chris Meadows But certainly if the unthinkable happened and the iTunes Music Store did close its doors, its overwhelming popularity means that it would have the potential to serve as an object lesson in the drawbacks of Digital Rights Management in ways that Wal-Mart, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google’s...

ITunes DRM files include AAC, M4V, M4P, M4A, this article will show you how to play itunes music video on any Apple incompatible devices, like Zune, Creative Zen, PSP, mobile Phone, etc.

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By treesing The music downloaded from iTunes is under DRM protection. In order to play it on your PSP, you need to strip the DRM off and have the iTunes M4P M4A converted to PSP MP3 format. You can burn the protected M4P music files to CD-R or CD-RW disc to make an audio CD and then use some CD ripper software to...

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By Owen Good Though it's not a popular view, in my mind a lot of gamers are overreacting—look how many people buy music through iTunes, whose DRM mechanics are hardly lenient. That's not meant to be a judgment of right or wrong, it's just an observation that may illustrate the gulf between a certain game...

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By Spiral Here's how to make music you bought via iTunes play on any media player. Like the other hack on this page, this DRM-stripping trick could get you into legal hot water, but it also gives you control over songs that you rightfully own. ...

What you'll need. 1. A blank CD (A rewrite CD would be better). 2. iTunes (which need to be changed the preferences before burning.) 3. CD-R 4. A professional DRM converter (Alternate Method) ...

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By GolaYing And the detailed guide about how to convert DRM media: Part two: Free remove iTunes DRM music on Mac However, in order to remove DRM protection, you will need iMovie - iMovie is a separate application, the current iteration of iMovie ...

So all you need to do is take an m4a file which is DRM free and not more than 30 seconds, rename it to m4r and add it to iTunes. You can check out this step by step guide (courtesy theAppleBlog) to create free custom ringtones for your ...

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By itunestopsp You can follow its the step by step tutorial to learn how to convert iTunes DRM protected M4P music to PSP MP3. After getting the output MP3 files by adopting either the burn-and-rip method or the way of using TuneClone M4P to MP3 ...

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Just a few days after the iPhone DRM may have been cracked, Apple has released iTunes 7.7.1. The update, according to Apple, includes fixes to improve stability and performance, but the company did not provide any other details. The 48MB update is available via Mac OS X Software Update and via...

By Mat Lu Napster has announced that it is now offering DRM-free MP3 downloads that play on the iPod family and the iPhone. Furthermore, the library is 6 million songs which puts it in the same league as the iTunes Store, and indeed far eclipses ...

By sammytaters The best thing you can do is boycott DRM technologies. They are pointless, obtrusive, and crazy in the computer world. Companies need to embrace the fact that the user has all the power over their content. ...

This article is mainly to tell us how to Remove iTunes DRM copy-protection and burn iTunes movie and tv shows to DVD, so that we can enjoy movies on large screen TV, it's very informative.

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By John Gruber With video, of course, we’re all screwed, in that every legal source for mainstream content attempts to lock you in. DVDs, unlike CDs, can’t legally be ripped to digital files for your own personal use. (If iTunes could just rip movies from DVDs like it rips songs from CDs, Apple would be sell...

By Adam Pash iConcertCal (Windows/Mac): Installs a new "visualization" to iTunes that scans your music library and then displays upcoming concerts in your area for artists in your iTunes library on a calendar. (Download) (Read more) Utilities iTunes Folder Watch (Windows): Monitor folders for n...

By Mike Schramm The thing about DRM is that there are always exceptions to the rules-- while Apple has released lots of DRM-free music, lots of it is still bogged down by DRM, and if you're like me, you disagree that any music you purchase should be limited in the ways that you use it.

By adam frucci Other price discrepancies include Air's Pocket Symphony ($8.99 on Amazon, $9.22 on Wal-Mart), Broken Social Scene's self-titled album ($7.99 on amazon, $9.44 on Wal-Mart), and A Love Supreme by John Coltrane ($8.97 on Amazon, $9.22 on Wal-Mart). More often than not, the prices are better on A...

By Charles When most people think of buying music online, they think of iTunes. But most iTunes music is still encumbered with DRM, which makes it clumsy to use with Kinoma Player. (Read this to learn how to use all of your iTunes purchases with ...

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By glenn@tidbits.com (Glenn Fleishman) Steve Jobs confirmed to the Wall Street Journal what Ars Technica reported earlier: iTunes Plus songs sold via the iTunes Store are now 99 cents, down from a typical $1.29. iTunes Plus songs are sold without digital rights management (DRM), which encrypts content for playback on specific...

By Danny Mendez An added benefit of downloading your music via Amazon as opposed to iTunes is the lack of DRM. Most of iTunes' music comes encoded with DRM, preventing you from using YOUR music on anything other than an iPod or the computer to which the music is registered.

By John Gruber Are iTunes Plus Non-DRM Songs Freely Ringtone-Able Using the Unofficial File Extension Renaming Trick? Yes. Just use the trick where you make a copy of an AAC audio file and change its extension to “.m4r”, open it in iTunes, ...

By chris@pirillo.com (Chris Pirillo) Chris | Live Tech Support | Video Help | Add to iTunes Formats Available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4) Flash Video (.flv) MP3 Audio (.mp3) Microsoft Video (.avi) Backup and File ManagementJim Allchin on Windows Vista Beta 2Mark Russinovich on Sony DRM RootkitsChris Zomaya on GoldenRAM UpgradeDetec...

By info Wal-Mart will continue to offer its existing WMA-format music downloads. Thus, customers may select the option of MP3-format downloads at 256 kbps for $0.94/track and/or WMA-format downloads at 128 kbps for $0.88/track. It looks breaking Apple’s lock on digital music downloads is so imp...

Previously, on the hack channel** Remember kiddos about FairUse4WM and QTFairUse? They are DRM hacks for Windows Media and iTunes that I posted about last year. It’s the cat and mouse game here. FairUse writers post their hack on the forums. iTunes and Windows Media post a patch to their soft...

By Jon Or put another way, it’s not using Media Rights Technologies technologies. So MRT is telling Apple to remove iTunes links from its BlueBeat.com. “MRT will not condone copyright infringement nor risk infringement liability for our customers and partners. Until Apple is fully compliant wi...

By Mark Wilson A new edition of FairUse4WM has been released, allowing for Zune Marketplace WMAs to be stripped of their DRM so you can have fair use rights your purchases—copying to other devices at will. Think of it as a Zune without the Zune...or better yet...iTunes DRM-free without the Mac vs. PC bickering. Fo...

Offer a thank you for Apple dropping iTunes DRM eMusic, the world’s largest retailer of independent music and the world’s second-largest digital music retailer is cheekily offering Apple’s Steve Jobs a free lifetime subscription for his new iPhone, according to 901am.com. The offer wa...

By Richard Driver With EMI Group PLC (LSE: EMI)'s announcement Friday that its new Digital Rights Management technology-free tracks now available for sale on Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)'s iTunes Store are performing well, will the compact disc finally go to the grave, as has been speculated for the past fe...

By Mat Lu Filed under: iTS, iTunesOur own Erica was one of the first to discover that personal information is encoded in DRM-free iTunes Plus files. If you want to remove that watermarking, Playlist Magazine has a solution: TUAW favorite audio editor Fission ($32) from Rogue Amoeba "can strip out...

By Ankur Apple became the first major digital music retailer to offer DRM free music in collaboration with music company EMI. The company has just launched their iTunes Plus service which allows the web users to purchase DRM free music for 30 cents more compared to regular prices.

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By Jimmy Daniels Specifically, if you burn a playlist of iTunes’ protected music to a CD in iTunes 7.2 and then rip that CD in the MP3 format (a trick people often use to remove the tracks’ copy protection), those MP3 tracks won’t copy to an iPod. Try, and you’ll be told that the tracks are incompatible with the i...

When asked by e-mail when he thought that Apple would offer high-bitrate tracks (that is, CD quality, or closer to 1,440 Kbps) Gideon was not optimistic. "I think Apple views the new iTunes Plus tracks as high bitrate -- in other words, they already are available, but only on the iTunes Plus...

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When asked by e-mail when he thought that Apple would offer high-bitrate tracks (that is, CD quality, or closer to 1,440 Kbps) Gideon was not optimistic. "I think Apple views the new iTunes Plus tracks as high bitrate -- in other words, they already are available, but only on the iTunes Plus...

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By info Buzz about Apple’s introduction of iTunes Plus, which offers DRM-free music tracks for $1.29 each, has turned into concern for some. Posts at Ars Technica and TUAW have revealed that Apple is embedding personal information, such as your name and email address, in music files (including...

By Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow: Apple's new DRM-free tracks from the iTunes store not only contain your email address and password name in hidden fields, but in at least one case, more than 360k of hidden information. EFF's technologists have found a hidden block of data in the new iTunes tracks: We compar...

Along with a new version of iTunes released today Apple has launched iTunes Plus, a premium service that offers music tracks free of copy protection, keeping its promise to offer EMI Group's digital catalog in May, inclu...

Apple updates iTunes for DRM-free music sales InfoWorld, CA - May 30, 2007 Apple has taken another step toward selling DRM-free tracks from EMI and other labels through its new iTunes Plus service. The company released an update to ...

Despite the software update, the Apple iTunes Store itself does not show any DRM-Free music currently available for purchase. The DRM-Free launch will likely occur later this morning (Wed, May 30th). From the iTunes Help, it appears you will be able to upgrade your existing songs to the iT...

By Scott Dawson This version of iTunes allows you to purchase iTunes Plus music—new higher-quality, DRM-free music downloads from participating music labels. Following yesterdays Quicktime Security Update Apple has just released iTunes 7.2 via Software update and standalone download. This versio...

By Michael By the time you read this, you will probably be able to download DRM Free tracks from iTunes.  Apple, late last night, sent out the 7.2 update of iTunes that includes iTunes Plus, the much talked about higher encoded, DRM free audio tracks from EMI.

By Cory Doctorow Still, it was easy to fill my basket with $20 worth of $0.88 music, all of which I've enjoyed immensely. PayPlay also features an admirable artist split, with artists taking home an average of $0.59 per track, (artists signed to labels average about seven percent of the price of an iTunes Stor...

The original e-commerce giant is throwing down the digital music gauntlet. With iTunes, Amazon, and EMI on the bandwagon, could the world of copyright-protected music finally be coming to an end? With the exception of EMI, record labels have fought against the notion of DRM-free music,...

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The original e-commerce giant is throwing down the digital music gauntlet. With iTunes, Amazon, and EMI on the bandwagon, could the world of copyright-protected music finally be coming to an end? With the exception of EMI, record labels have fought against the notion of DRM-free music,...

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By Katharine Donelson EMI has announced a new partnership that will allow it to sell its entire catalog without DRM software. The partnership is with amazon.com and is similar to a deal that EMI has made with iTunes. The tracks will be of a higher quality and will be sold in MP3 format which will allow them to be playab...

By Richard Driver If Amazon can successfully create a new service to compete with iTunes, then an "Amazon-tunes" service could revolutionize the still new market. The key will be the utilization of DRM-free tracks. Amazon will need to join Apple in convincing the other labels to drop DRM, which has been an i...

Last month, Britain's EMI Music Group PLC, home to artists such as Coldplay, Norah Jones and Joss Stone, agreed to let iTunes sell tracks without the copy-protection technology known as digital-rights management. The DRM-free tracks cost 30 cents more than copy-restricted versions o...

Apple is reportedly negotiating with Sony BMG, Warner Music, and EMI to renew contracts for the licensed content it offers on iTunes, and will powwow with Universal next week. Apple executives could not immediately be reached for comment.

By Tom Sullivan Notes from the field: The excitable Robert X. Cringely explains that "everybody gets something out of the Apple EMI deal." Indeed, the pact under which EMI drops DRM via iTunes. That's everybody as in the record company and Apple. "Don't be fooled," Cringe writes in DRM a little DRM of me. "This...

By info On Monday of this week, EMI and Apple announced that most of EMI’s catalog of music would soon be available DRM-free through the iTunes store at a premium of 30 cents per song. As a result, Microsoft is in the position of trying to sell new DRM formats when the latest thing in digital music is DR...

Via ReadWriteWeb: Steve Jobs Asks Record Labels To Abolish DRM Apple CEO Steve Jobs has posted his Thoughts on Music in the ‘Hot News’ section of the Apple website. He starts off by explaining the background to Apple’s DRM on iTunes: UPDATE: Prof Lessig (who inspired my little chart below)...

But now the problem is fixed -- at least partially. Apple's plan to offer EMI's music via iTunes with no digital rights management [DRM) software to restrict the conditions under which songs can be copied will automatically give Sonos the compatibility it has wanted so long with at least s...

By tonyhughes iTunes will also offer customers a simple, one-click option to easily upgrade their entire library of all previously purchased EMI content to the higher quality DRM-free format for 30 cents a song. All EMI music videos will also be available in DRM-free format with no change in price.

By A.L. Harper What is DRM you might ask? DRM (Digital Rights Management) is the umbrella term that refers to any technologies used by publishers or copyright owners to control access to, and usage of digital data; in this case music. It is also used to restrict which devices you can use the music you have p...

The c,mm,n (pronounced "common") is apparently the world's first open source car."Official: EMI to Release Music DRM-Free The OCZ Trifecta combines SD, MicroSD, and USB into one super device that may not be a creation of Earth."Dealzmodo: Buy 3 $15 iTunes Gift Cards, Get 1 Free

By Om Malik Apple and EMI announced this morning their decision to sell digital music downloads without digital rights management via Apple’s iTunes store. Apple will sell higher quality songs (256 kbps) for $1.29 a song without DRM though consumers are free to choose lower priced DRM tracks. Album p...

By Cory Doctorow Why Apple is to blame for iTunes DRM Apple sued for iTunes/iPod monopoly tying Apple and Sony sued for non-interoperable DRM Germany and France challenge iTunes DRM Sony: DRM cost us the Walkman DRM company vows to hack iTunes DRM Sony rootkit ripped off anti-DRM code to break into iTunes

By MichaelMiller Starting in May, Apple says the complete digital catalog from EMI music is going to be available on iTunes in 256 kbps AAC encoding without DRM for $1.29 per song.   You’ll still be able to get the music in the existing format - 128 kbps AAC encoding with Apple’s Fairplay DRM – at the current pri...

By Joe Lewis Crusaders against Digital Rights Management (DRM) believe the practice does nothing to curtail music piracy while placing unnecessary restrictions on downloaded audio content. In a move that should please the anti-DRM contingent, EMI has announced that it will remove the restricti...

EMI Group announced in an early-morning press conference that it will remove digital rights management restrictions from their music offered on Apple's iTunes service, offering tracks at higher sound quality and at a slightly higher price.

Apr. 2 - Apple's CEO Steve Jobs announced that EMI's entire catalogue of songs will be available through iTunes without the copy-protection DRM - Digital Rights Management.

By info 1) Drop DRM on iTunes for independent artists 2) Drop DRM on iTunes for Disney movies and video 3) Take a public stand against DRM and legislation mandating DRM by funding a campaign to repeal the Digital Millenium Copyright Act’s (DMCA) prohibitions.

By Scott McNulty That solves the iTunes Store lock in problem, because if you are really that passionate about moving from iTunes you'll figure this trick out. So we now know you can rid all of your iTunes audio purchases of DRM with a little time and effort but what about Cory's assertion that 'once you put mu...

By Cory Doctorow While it's true that most of us haven't loaded our 10,000-song iPods with $9,900 worth of iTunes songs, it doesn't follow that the switching cost for even casual iTunes customers is negligible. If you'd bought just one iTunes track every month since the launch in 2003, you'd have rung up $8...

By paradoxsm Mp3 files, No DRM restrictions, excellent navigation of site and superb song previews. ... DRM infested WMA at 128Kbps (Lossless DRM format on SOME music available) ... Apple Mac which will run iTunes (mac guys, help me here please!) ...

By ITSpec I'm not defending Microsoft. They have taken some controversial steps in the attempt to dominate new markets. Much the same as Apple (with iTunes) reaps huge benefits from dominating the digital music content distribution pipeline, Microsoft wanted to leverage Vista to dominate the HD...

Today, Apple's Steve Jobs publicly threw down this gauntlet: "If the big four music companies would license Apple their music without the requirement that it be protected with a DRM, we would switch to selling only DRM-free music on our iTunes store... Apple will embrace this wholehearted...

Apple indicated it would open its iTunes store to other portable players besides its ubiquitous iPod if major record labels abandoned the anti-piracy technology that serves as the industry's security blanket. Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive, made the case for abolishing the prot...

Apple[base ']s preferred outcome, Jobs says, is outcome (3), selling DRM-free music. This is notable, and somewhat surprising, as the consensus has been that Apple strategy has been to seek outcome (1), using its proprietary DRM to lock customers in to its iTunes-iPod world. If Apple rea...

By Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow: After Steve Jobs announced that he'd remove DRM from the iTunes Music Store "in a heartbeat" if rightsholders would let him, Clay wrote and recorded a new version of John Lennon's "Imagine," with lyrics reflecting his ...

By Grant Robertson Steve Jobs released an open letter to iTunes critics yesterday entitled, ... in which he discusses DRM, the major label system and why iTunes isn't "open. ... It tends to over-simplify the DRM debate by discounting any open alternative. ...

By Xeni Jardin With the stunning global success of Apple’s iPod music player and iTunes online music store, some have called for Apple to “open” the digital rights management (DRM) system that Apple uses to protect its music against theft, ...

By Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow: The anti-DRM activists at Defective by Design staged an anti-Vista ... to spread the message that Vista's DRM is a danger to computer users. ... Why Apple is to blame for iTunes DRM Anti-DRM demonstrators in hazmat suits ...

By Andy Merrett Organisations representing France, Germany, Finland, and Norway, are uniting their individual legal efforts to get Apple to remove its DRM (Digital Rights Management) locks. 3. Work with others to make a common DRM standard - yes that includes Microsoft.

By Michael Rose Stross (who also wrote a fine item in 2005 about why Sony didn't build the iPod) has some basic points: DRM bad; iTunes Store has DRM; look at Plays for Sure and all the Microsoft customers that got rogered; iPhone bad; eMusic and other unencumbered music sales online, good.

RealNetworks isn't abandoning HelixDRM after all. A dual-DRM strategy to make Rhapsody more competitive with iTunes.

By noemail@noemail.org (Cory Doctorow) Jérôme bypassed DRMs on music legally purchased on iTunes and another French online provider, explained how to bypass DRMs on a webpage, and translated a software that gets rid of protections on digital content; for all that, he risks a € 30,000 fine and up to six months in prison."

By Om Malik They (which includes everyone from Microsoft to Real to SanDisk) used to mock Apple for having a walled garden approach to digital music. iPod + iTunes + Apple DRM = Money. Well now they are building their own walls - Microsoft has Zune.

By noemail@noemail.org (Cory Doctorow) Cory Doctorow: A spokesman for the US Department of Justice has counseled European governments to stop investigating the anti-competitive, anti-consumer aspects of Apple's iTunes DRM. Apple imposes their DRM even when musicians ask not to have it applied to their music, and they have...

By noemail@noemail.org (Cory Doctorow) Cory Doctorow: myFairTunes 6 is the latest iteration of a recent series of cracks for tracks purchased from the iTunes Music Store. It converts your music from the iTunes Music Store proprietary format to an unencrypted AAC that you can convert to MP3 or OGG and play on any pocket-player, w...

By Ryan Carter Filed under: Audio, Utilities, News, Windows, Macintosh, Open SourceOn the heels of FairUse4WM being released, QTFairUse6 was posted on the Hymn site, which is an app that will crack Apple iTunes DRM, in a similar way to FairUse4WM. According to InformationWeek, the QT version require...

By Ryan Block So the first thing we did was, of course, update to the very latest version of iTunes for Windows (6.0.5.20) and buy a song from the iTunes Music Store. As you'd expect, this is what happened with the AAC file tried to play in VLC. No go -- that's copy protection for ya!

By David Chartier Filed under: iTMS, HacksJHymn users might remember that iTunes 6 broke the DRM-stripping tool, and it seems that Apple's done a good job of keeping FairPlay locked down - until someone cooked up QTFairUse6 for Windows. Yes, it's a Windows app, but it can apparently strip purchases from iT...

May I ask a question? Is there a DRM converter can remove DRM from videos such as Zune WMV and iTunes M4V?