Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Amazon whips the dying DRM horse

The new Amazon MP3 is already offering a bunch of popular songs/artists in non-DRM MP3 format. And for $0.89 to $0.99 per song. How will this affect Apple and their premium pricing structure? And the Amazon MP3 interface seems to play nice with iTunes if you're in the Apple corp. (not that there's anything wrong with that).

I also read of a proposal to replace the current video copy protection scheme with one which relies on special DVD blanks which would allow viewers to copy a show/movie to DVD but would inhibit any copying of the DVD. That didn't work with CDs so I doubt it will be acceptable for DVDs.

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