Sunday, February 11, 2007

EMI May Drop Copy Protection

EMI Considers Dropping Copy Protection
February 9, 2007, www.fmqb.com

The fallout continues from Steve Jobs' declaration earlier this week that the music industry should put an end to its usage of copy protection software on digital music. Multiple reports are suggesting that EMI Group is debating changing over to selling its music as unprotected MP3s. Sources tell Reuters and the Wall Street Journal that the label is holding talks with digital retailers about its entire catalog being sold in MP3 format, as opposed to the various copy protected formats of the different online stores.
According to the WSJ, EMI has been in talks with RealNetworks, eMusic, Music Net and MTV about the removal of copy protection. However, the paper's sources said that EMI could abandon the proposed changes before they take place...read more: here