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Sony Joins Other Labels on Amazon MP3 Store

Posted on January 11th, 2008 at 11:11 by John Sinteur in category: Intellectual Property -- Write a comment

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Sony BMG, the music company, announced Thursday that it would become the fourth and final major label to begin selling digital music on Amazon.com, offering its entire catalog in the MP3 format by the end of the month.

Finally. Now Apple can drop the DRM as well. Now all we need to do is disband RIAA.

  1. Maarten on January 11th, 2008 at 21:12:

    I was about to email you this headline. :) So what do yu make of the weird “buy credits in the store before you can download” initiative you posted the other day in light of this?

  2. John Sinteur on January 11th, 2008 at 21:23:

    Proof of something I’ve observed myself: in a company of sufficient size, it is possible that one department does something whilst another department does the exact opposite, at the same time, usually without knowing about each other.

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