Digital music business & DRM

Today Amazon announced the launch of their music download service. It is aggressively priced to compete with Apple itune and it is DRM free.

From FT:

Amazon is the largest online seller of physical CDs. Its new downloads will be “DRM free”, meaning that they can be accessed by both iPod and MP3 players, and be easily copied or burnt on to users’ CDs.

Certainly DRM free music/content is the best option for consumers that want to play their music/video on their devices without being constraint by the specific device, OS or platform. And in case the service where you bought the music/content closes, you could risk to lose your music and videos. This has happened when Google had stopped to sell their DRM-protected videos. Additionally, Sony has closed its digital music stored based on proprietary format and will open its portable media players to other formats.

And the trend shows that:

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