A Legitmate DRM-Free Music Service - By Amazon?
I’ve been waiting for a legitimate company to release DRM-free music, so I may take the plunge for the new iPod Touch. The iPod touch is by far the first device I’ve wanted to purchase from Apple.
Don’t get me wrong, Steve Jobs is a genius, he knows what people want and when the right time is to release it. He brought Apple from $7.00/share to $150/share in just five years. All single handedly to everyones favorite device, the iPod. My biggest beef with the entire iPod series has been DRM and iTunes.
Well today, Amazon released the first in what will hopefully be a string of DRM-free music services with, for the first time, a long list of big name artists. This is finally what everybody has wanted, freedom to do what they want with their music. The ability to upload their tunes onto any and all devices without limits. Let’s hope Amazon can somehow pull this off, so iTunes and company, will follow suit.
What are your thoughts? Are DRM free MP3s the way of the future? Is subscription based music what we should look forward to? or is iTunes now and forever?
ps - If you hadn’t noticed, this was the first in what will hopefully be a long list of contributions to ConnectedInternet. My name is Tim(aka TimmyJ) and I am the present and somewhat former editor and chief of Listikal.com. I decided recently that I was lacking the time to maintain my blog on a consistent basis and that making contributions on a semi-regular basis to Evertons would be much more realistic. You’ll see me writing about many different things now and in the future, including Web 2.0, gadgets and gizmos, blogging and money making.
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Comment by abhishek on 28 September 2007:
Nice to see u here Tim.It just goes to show that connected Internet team got stronger and what i have been reading about it will be something like subscribtion based music in the future.
Cheers
Abhishek