Tag archive: DRM-free

A start-up called Free All Media says its offering free music downloads through Facebook—no monetary cost, legal, iPod compatible, high-quality DRM-free MP3s. Artists get paid; you get their music free, and even the Free All Media company supposedly turns a profit. Free is a nice word but usually its a marketing trapcard, so its only natural for you to be a little skeptical. There is always a catch, and in this case users get their free music… Read More

When Apple announced at its final Macworld Expo that it was revamping iTunes to enable variable pricing and offer every track in DRM-free AAC format, it also created a bit of a problem for long-time (or big-spending) iTunes customers. Apple would let customers upgrade their existing DRM-protected iTunes tracks to DRM-free iTunes Plus format for $0.30…but it would only enable customers to upgrade their music libraries in one fell… Read More

Making good on the promise it made earlier this year to deliver DRM-free MP3s, Napster launched its new Napster Store on Tuesday, which it claims is the largest of its kind in the world. Without DRM, the technology that limits how users can share and play music, its MP3 downloads will be compatible with nearly every type of media player, including the iPod and iPhone. Although its promise of 6 million tracks for download puts it roughly on… Read More

Besides murmurs about Yahoo diving into DRM-free music and Qtrax attempting to put profit back into stolen tracks, the past few days have also brought Amazon’s announcement that it would be pushing its own DRM-free music service worldwide. Amazon announced on Sunday that Amazon MP3 would soon be springing up international sites in response to consumer demand. “We have received thousands of e-mails from Amazon customers around… Read More

Long-struggling digital music service Napster has announced it will be embracing the DRM-free mindset, and plans to begin offering DRM-free digital music to its customers in MP3 format beginning in the second quarter of 2008. Until this point, Napster has focussed on selling music in Microsoft's Windows Media format under the PlaysForSure platform; however, PlaysForSure has not offered a seamless experience across music players,… Read More

Apple may have been the first out the gate with selling DRM-free music tracks via its iTunes Plus offering—and Amazon.com quickly announcing plans to follow—but now MusicNet has announced it will offer over one million DRM-free music tracks to its partners. MusicNet—the music unit of the newly-named MediaNet Digital—is the service provider behind a number of digital music download servers that, well, that… Read More