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Yahoo to sell DRMfree music

Yahoo is selling the new Jessica Simpson song in MP3 format… however that’s not the big new of this article. The big news is that the MP3 doesn’t have any DRM built in. What means for the non-geeks is that you can copy it and play it anywhere, anytime, forever. That’s a great move for the music industry!

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 on 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.