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How Apple is Changing DRM
Ironically, the music companies are now abandoning DRM because it worked too well. Apple wouldn’t license its version to rivals - so the best-selling iPod drove the iTunes store to its present position, where it is the third-largest music retailer in any form in the US. Rosenblatt says that record labels “have been desperate to [...]
It’s Apple iTunes with DRM forever
Something that just a few years ago many thought impossible, Apple has replaced Wal-Mart as the 1000 pound gorilla in retail music, for the month of January 2008 at least. Figures released recently have Apple at 19% of the market to 15% for Wal-Mart. Apparently the concept of the market rejecting DRM is overblown and [...]
Apple’s all you can eat?
Financial Times reports that Apple is in negotiations for an unlimited music bundle that would open up the entire iTunes music catalog on newly purchased iPod and iPhone devices. The "all you can eat" isn’t actually subscription based, but rather a premium attached to the sale of each device - atleast that is the [...]
Paul McCartney Signs $400 Million iTunes Deal For The Beatles Catalog
Finally! Paul McCartney has signed a $400 million deal, which will see the Beatles catalog make its way to iTunes, at long last.
iPod Touch with iTunes Wifi Music Store
Observers have been expecting a significant revamp to Apple’s iPod lineup, especially after the release of the iPhone in all of its touch-screen glory. So when Apple announced today’s special event?as we predicted?with the tagline “The beat goes on,” we knew the time for an iPod refresh had come. We weren’t disappointed, as Apple [...]
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