Microsoft Set to Unlock EMI Songs, Too

linumax writes "Microsoft has stated that it may be close to reaching a deal with EMI to sell songs without anti-piracy protection via the Zune platform. This, from comments made by head of marketing for Zune Jason Reindorp. They come hard on the heels of EMI's announcement that a deal with Apple to sell songs without DRM protection through the iTunes Music Store has been struck. Mr Reindorp said: 'We've been saying for a while that we are aware that consumers want to have unprotected content. This does open things up a little bit. It potentially makes the competition more of a device-to-device or service-to-service basis, and will force the various services to really innovate.'"

Comments

Re:So the question is...

[MSFanBoi2]

Apple did NOTHING to convince EMI to drop DRM...

When people say stuff like this, you are playing right into Apple's plans, and for that they charge you an extra .30 for the "right" to use non-DRM music...

Re:Cool! Next step: price

[porcupine8]

So since they're $10/album, are you going to buy 50 albums and 5 more each month?