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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
Not because the tracks will be DRM-free, but because their availability will be in MP3 format - something sorely lacking at the iTunes camp.
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Specious nonsense.
It's such a trivial task to rip a CD, I've never understood the point that selling music online means the songs have to have DRM. You sell a CD in a store that doesn't have DRM, what's the difference of selling it online with no DRM. There's a step in reasoning that I don't follow. The first thing you do when you buy a new cd is rip to your computer. So what's the difference in selling a hardcopy vs. a digital copy with/without DRM?
I think the primary motivation is business common sense, not a fundamental 'we disagree with DRM'. Furthermore, they are just using the 'no-DRM' thing to get 0.30 more a song. The fact that you can put the songs on any portable player (and therefore, untethered from itunes/ipod) is a negligible insignication factor.
