All tracks will be DRM free, or without digital rights management, meaning users can move the files around between devices and convert them an unlimited number of times.
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As well as being able to access DRM free content they have purchased from iTunes music, customers can continue to use iTunes software on their PC to manage their music, videos and podcasts and keep their Android device in sync with it.
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Now, to be fair, Steve himself doesn't think TV shows and movies need to be DRM-free, but on the whole, Glickman's plan to solve DRM's problems with more DRM isn't exactly our favorite idea ever.
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According to unnamed sources, Justin Timberlake, a pop star signed to a Sony -controlled label, will be part of a Super Bowl promotion with Pepsi Feb. 3 that will involve free distribution of as many as 1 billion songs through Amazon.com 's DRM-free music store.
Finding the Future of Digital Book Publishing is available DRM-free at the DBW Store.
Also, a company called eMusic has some 2 million MP3s in their catalog that you can buy DRM-free.
The responses on Twitter were split three-to-one in favor of DRM-free (literally I got responses from four people).
To those people who said they would pay more for a DRM-free ebook, I asked, basically, how much more.
We will also be revealing a lot of other information regarding our products and the DRM-free distribution platform GOG.com.
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Following this success, we launched a new version of GOG.com in March 2012 and released some newer DRM-free PC titles.
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Initially the site will offer 1 million, DRM-free songs (ramping up to 5 million) from Sony BMG, Warner Music, and EMI.
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Nest Energy Services is the company's attempt at a DRM-free conservation system.
We're not DRM-free across the industry yet (in fact, far from it), but things are certainly moving in that direction.
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Meanwhile, only EMI sells DRM-free music on Apple's iTunes store.
But already, some companies are making money selling DRM-free music.
All Amazon MP3s are DRM-free, and work on virtually any device that plays MP3s, including Kindle Fire, Android phones and tablets, iPhones, iPads, and iPods, and Macs and PCs.
GOG.com is the ultimate destination for downloadable DRM-free games.
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So if you're not too picky on what tunes you listen to, and you're down with supporting DRM-free music regardless of genre, keep an eye out for the new catalog opening up to French users this March.
Let's see what Apple has up its sleeve -- and in the meantime, I need to decide if I loathe iTunes so much that I'd be willing to upgrade my library to DRM-free just to get out.
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It's been nearly a year since DVD Jon made some noise about doubleTwist by promising to "liberate" iTunes purchases from their DRM, and while that's no longer particularly relevant in light of Apple's decision to go DRM-free, we're actually really digging this newly refocused public beta of the doubleTwist app, which promises to seamlessly manage all your devices from a single interface.
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According to unnamed sources, Justin Timberlake, a pop star signed to a Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people )-controlled label, will be part of a Super Bowl promotion with Pepsi (nyse: PEP - news - people ) Feb. 3 that will involve free distribution of as many as 1 billion songs through Amazon.com 's (nasdaq: AMZN - news - people ) DRM-free music store.
All the 3.1 million tracks in the Amazon store are free of DRM software.
The deal means Amazon is now the only company offering tracks from all four big music companies free of DRM.
That meant their music could be made available on Amazon MP3, which does not use DRM, and which features free software that delivers a customer's MP3 file directly to their iTunes library.
Now, this from Steve Jobs of Apple: free the music, get rid of DRM, he says in a post yesterday at the Apple site.
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