EMI / Apple remove the DRM locks
EMI and Apple have announced that iTunes will sell EMI’s albums at a higher quality (twice the encoding frequency) without any copy protection (DRM), for the same price as the other label’s albums with copy protection. Single tracks will be more expensive, but in my case I almost never buy individual tracks, so that won’t affect me.
Thanks to Steve Jobs (Apple CEO) and Eric Nicoli (EMI Group CEO)!
There’s no mention in the press release as to whether this means that EMI’s CDs will also be sold without copy protection, but Boing Boing reported that EMI had decided to stop selling DRM’d CDs in January this year (I never saw an announcement from EMI at the time).