Digital Rights Management

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

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.

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

Macworld Expo In one of the least eventful keynote speeches in recent memory, Apple's SVP Phil Schiller, filling in for the ailing Steve Jobs, announced upgrades to iLife and iWork, an upgraded 17-inch MacBook, and iTunes Store pricing-structure changes and DRM-removal plans.…

Steve Jobs and several expected products didn't make an appearance. But one long-rumored development did grace the stage for Apple's last Macworld.

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...

Taking a cue from Apple CEO Steve Jobs' previous Macworld keynotes, Vice-President of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller saved "one more thing" for the end of his Tuesday morning talk: DRM-free music on iTunes, with multi-tier pricing: US$0.69, $0.99, and $1.29 per song. Eight million of t...

At the Apple keynote at Macworld Expo 2009 in San Francisco Philip W. Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide product marketing for Apple, followed absent Apple boss Steve Jobs' tradition of announcing "one last thing". ... Read iTunes finally goes DRM-free on Pocket-lint now

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...

Despite this Macworld being Apple's last, despite Apple CEO Steve Jobs not delivering the keynote address, and despite efforts at a silent protest during the keynote, the show went on with great success. Apple had a lot to announce and Philip Schiller, vice president of worldwide produc...

Despite this Macworld being Apple's last, despite Apple CEO Steve Jobs not delivering the keynote address, and despite efforts at a silent protest during the keynote, the show went on with great success. Apple had a lot to announce and Philip Schiller, vice president of worldwide produc...

Windows on Mac & DRM  CA - During the course of Dan’s and my DRM discussion we refer to numerous milestones. They include Steve Jobs’ infamous Thoughts on Music open letter, ...