EMI to Apple, Microsoft: Ditching DRM is going to cost you
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| Earlier this month it was widely reported that EMI was indeed ready
| to cast DRM into the dark abyss and earn the company the honorable
| status of being the first major music label to realize that DRM
| alienates honest customers. As it turns out, the company is indeed
| open to the possibility of ditching DRM, but they expect to be
| paid well for it, and the online music retailers aren't ready to
| meet their demands.
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| EMI is the only major record label to seriously consider
| abandoning the disaster that is DRM, but earlier reports that
| focused on the company's reformist attitude apparently missed
| the mark: EMI is willing to lose the DRM, but they demand a
| considerable advance payment to make it happen.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070225-8916.html
Linux has already made its "considerable advance payment", so it has lost
DRM. ;-)
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