Amazon To Sell Music Without Copy Protection

May 17th, 2007 by Annkur

Amazon.com is reportedly launching a digital music store later this year, offering millions of songs in the DRM-free MP3 format.

With this initiative, Amazon customers would be able to play their music on virtually any personal device, including PCs, Macs, iPods, Zunes, and Zens. Besides, they would be able to burn their music collection on to CDs.

What is Digital rights management (DRM)?

As part of the deal, Amazon.com is partnering with record label EMI to offer millions of MP3-formatted songs for sale in an improved, premium format management (DRM) protection.

Jeff Bezos, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Amazon.com, said, “Our MP3-only strategy means all the music that customers buy on Amazon would always be DRM-free, and would play on any device. We are excited to have EMI joining us in this effort, and look forward to offering our customers MP3s from amazing artists like Coldplay, Norah Jones, and Joss Stone.”

The company claims they will offer songs from over 12,000 record labels through their upcoming digital music store.

The tie-up comes more than a month after EMI got into a similar agreement with Apple to sell music in the unprotected format on iTunes.

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