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Microsoft Set to Unlock EMI Songs, Too

Posted by Zonk on from the very-brave-new-world dept.

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.'"

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  1. not only that .. by rs232 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not only that but they innovated the idea before Apple ever did !!

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  2. Now that the eight Zune owners in the world... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...are done rejoicing, can we appropriately tag this article as irrelevant and slownewsday?

  3. A MS Strategic Meeting by AVee · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hi, i'd like to welcome you all to our monthly bussiness strategy meeting. The agenda of this months meeting is basically the same as last month:
    1. What has Apple been doing this month?
    2. What has Google been doing this month?
    3. Are there other interesting things to copy?