EMI announced this week, with Apple, that it would begin selling its digital music catalog with no Digital Rights Management DRM protections. The announcement comes shortly after Apple’s Steve Jobs called on the music industry to take a step to remove the requirement for DRM on digital sales, stating that it impeded sales, innovation, and competition. iTunes will sell EMI’s DRM-free songs as premium downloads, which will have a higher price ($1.29 per song rather than .99), but which will also be of higher-quality audio.
make it. In fact we are already working on it. You’ve just forced our
hand! Click the ’email me when available’ link above to get notified!
Thanks! I guess the joke is on us this year :p"
investigator for a government prosecution. . . . It’s absolutely a
victory."
"The MySpace community will give America its first Presidential primary winner in 2008," said Chris DeWolfe, CEO of MySpace. MySpace will hold a presidential primary this January 1st and 2nd as part of its efforts to engage it’s massive user-base with the political process. True, the online voting will have no real effect on the political process, but it could spur users to get out and vote, reminding them of the important primaries voting process just weeks before they take place, and reminding users to starting thinking early about who they will consider voting for in November. TechCrunch puts it nicely: "MySpace has more registered members than Mexico has people. If it was a country it would be the 11th largest in the world. So while it may be a major marketing event for MySpace to
say itβs holding a presidential primary next January, you can be sure
the candidates will take it seriously."
TowleTech is written by TR correspondent Daniel Williford.