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Amazon Officially First To Drop Major DRM: Sony the Fourth and Final Big Label Onboard [Official]

January 10th, 2008 | Uncategorized

Less than a week after it came out Sony BMG was planning to sell music not loaded down with copyright protection, they’re officially selling DRM-free MP3s through Amazon’s MP3 store later this month, making it the first store to carry DRM-free music from all four major labels. UPDATE: Regarding the lack of numbers in the press release, we’ve been told Sony BMG’s “entire digital catalog” will be available later this month—still working on more details.
AMAZON MP3 TO ADD DRM-FREE DOWNLOADS FROM SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
With the addition of SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT later this month, Amazon MP3 will be the only retailer to offer customers DRM-free MP3 downloads from all four major music labels
SEATTLE–January 10, 2008–Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that DRM-free MP3 music downloads from SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT will be available to customers on Amazon MP3, Amazon’s DRM-free MP3 digital music store where every song [...]

Original post by matt buchanan



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