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:Splendid!

[Elektroschock]

Convert your CDs to ogg. PirateBay is the real player in the future music market. The whole online music sales business does not work.

Re:not only that ..

[Vulva R. Thompson, P]

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

Re:no thanks to MS

[Anonymous Coward]

But in all honesty you weren't impressed by tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking and secure surfing, as of late last year, since you were still using Exploder 6.0.
Not only that, but you also thought that Microsoft's foray into the music market gave consumers freedom of choice.
From your insights into the mainstream tech, one would think you graduated from "Dvorak School of Technologist Futurists Academics".
So, what fucking impresses you is not really all that relevant to most of us here.

Re:

[Mateo_LeFou]

"What is the competition doing and how can we do it halfassedly?"
FYP.