Yahoo! Sells, Advocates DRM-Free Music

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday July 20, 2006 @11:02AM from the could-have-picked-a-better-lead-artist dept.

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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As long as they have CDs... by Anonymous Coward · 2006-07-20 12:03 · Score: -1, Redundant

I will NEVER EVER buy DRM crap! Not only is it restricted, its of lesser quality! Its bad enough I have to purchase movies with this garbage on it and will not do it for music.