Too much Internet free time » legal music http://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress Technology news and opinions straight from Paris, France Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:28:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Sony joins the DRM-free crowd http://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/2008/01/05/sony-joins-the-drm-free-crowd/ http://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/2008/01/05/sony-joins-the-drm-free-crowd/#comments Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:00:46 +0000 Yves Roumazeilles http://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/2008/01/05/sony-joins-the-drm-free-croud/ It was about time! I had previously wrote here that Sony was now the last major music company not having announced any plan to offer its music catalog in MP3 format without DRM (without digital rights protection). This is about to change.

Sony, like the other disc producers/distributors, finally figured it out: Consumers are actually ready to pay MP3 files to Apple and Amazon if the protection is not included (or very limited). Instead of staying behind (and off the sales increase for online music) disc producers come back to reason.

About Sony, I don’t know yet if the move will immediately cover the full catalog or a part only, but this is already going far enough to say that this is only a matter of time.

The door is opening wide onto the online sales of legal MP3 files but without silly protection.

Source: Business Week.

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