Warner Agrees To Sell Music Without Copy Protection On Amazon

AP:

Warner Music Group, a major holdout on selling music online without copy protection, caved in to the growing trend Thursday and agreed to sell its tunes on Amazon.com Inc.'s digital music store.

Until now, Warner Music had resisted offering songs by its artists in the MP3 format, which can be copied to multiple computers and burned onto CDs without restriction and played on most PCs and digital media players, including Apple Inc.'s iPod and Microsoft Corp.'s Zune.

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Comments

[workingboy]

who's the homeless looking guy in the photo?

[godlessclif]

Support the Kopywrite Liberation Front [The KLF].
End all intellectual property and Digital Property Management[The DPM].

[Sundialsvc4]

I, too, believe that this has been much too long in coming.

Let's face it: these companies have been making plenty of money for a very long time selling "little plastic disks" that anybody could copy. If anyone could have copied one of those disks without restriction, and the record labels were making money nonetheless, it really does not follow that an electronic file containing exactly the same material "must be a hive of villainy."

All that an electronic file really is ... is the very best thing that has ever happened to the music industry. No more disks! No warehouses! No heavy boxes! The so-called "long tail." The most obscure title in your archives now makes money because your "cost of sales" is now a big fat zero.

Even though you record-company folks do not quite believe it, there are actually millions of honest folks out here in your marketplace. We don't steal: we spend.

[mrcontinental]

Welcome to the 21st century; kicking and screaming all the way though you were.