Decius wrote:

EMI Group will soon sell digital music with better sound quality and no digital rights management restrictions through Apple's iTunes Store.

Wow. I am really quite amazed by this announcement! I really, honestly thought Jobs was blowing smoke.

That makes two of us, but now it's sooo obvious. The market for digital content was losing steam as pirating was starting to creep back into the mainstream. With the slowing of iPod sales as well, it becomes obvious. Eliminate DRM so that you can compete with piracy effectively. You'd rather have some revenue than no revenue. Of course I believe that the content industry has always had this in their plans, but they had to drag us all through hell first. Shawn Fanning and millions of others thank you.

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