Vodafone’s dropping DRM from its mobile music store, tying three of the world’s largest music publishers in to provide tracks completely DRM free to mobiles and computers.
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We hate it. You hate it. The only people in love with it seem to be record companies. And Nokia. Still, with the latest hacks putting paid to Comes With Music’s copy protection, and Amazon MP3 serving up DRM-free tunes on the cheap, we have to wonder: Will 2008 be the last year of DRM?
Uh-oh. Nokia isn’t going to like this. Its all-you-can-eat Comes With Music service is now open to piracy from pesky hackers, able to strip downloaded songs of their precious DRM, all for just a few quid.
If you ask us, this makes perfect sense. The latest rumour doing the rounds of the Applesphere is that Jobs and Co are poised to remove DRM from the iTunes store. The surprise is that it could happen as early as today.
DRM-free music fans, rejoice! Amazon has finally launched its music store in Britain, with 3 million protection-free tracks costing just 59p. Whole albums cost from an eye-widening £3 too!
DRM-free downloads are getting a marketing push from seven of the UK’s largest music download stores, unveiling a new badge that easily identifies DRM-free files that’ll work on any device.
All the music you can download, completely DRM-free and yours to keep forever. No, we haven’t lost our minds, that really is the offering from new download service Datz.
More hotly anticipated than a cut in interest rates, the T-Mobile G1 hits Britain later this week. We’ve already ripped it from its packaging in an early unboxing, but when it goes on sale this Thursday it’ll give UK phone fans a first hands on with Google’s open-source Android OS.
Developers have been beavering away on third-party apps for months, and we’ve got the ones that will have Steve Jobs and Apple’s iPhone running scared, right here. Read more