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From: Zonk
Subject: Yahoo! Sells, Advocates DRM-Free Music
Newsgroups: Slashdot
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 23:02:00 +0000
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prostoalex writes "Jessica Simpson's 'A Public Affair' will be sold on Yahoo!
Music in MP3 format with no DRM attached. According to Yahoo! Music blog, this
is a big deal for the major online music store: 'As you know, we've been
publicly trying to convince record labels that they should be selling MP3s for
a while now. Our position is simple: DRM doesn't add any value for the artist,
label (who are selling DRM-free music every day -- the Compact Disc), or
consumer, the only people it adds value to are the technology companies who
are interested in locking consumers to a particular technology platform. We've
also been saying that DRM has a cost. It's very expensive for companies like
Yahoo! to implement. We'd much rather have our engineers building better
personalization, recommendations, playlisting applications, community apps,
etc, instead of complex provisioning systems which at the end of the day allow
you to burn a CD and take the DRM back off, anyway!'"
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