Warner Music Group Drops DRM for Amazon

SirLurksAlot sends us to Ars Technica for an article about the Warner Music Group's decision to allow DRM-free music downloads through Amazon. This reversal of Warner's former position has been underway for some time, and it boosts the number of DRM-free songs available from Amazon to 2.9 million. Quoting: "Warner's announcement says nothing about offering its content through other services such as iTunes, and represents the music industry's attempt to make life a bit more difficult for Apple after all the years in which the company held the keys to music's digital kingdom.

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Re:That's great, but what about the law?

[Cheapy]

Ugh. Totally offtopic, but it always annoys me when people say "It begs the question" when they mean "It raises the question". "Begging the question" is not "raising the question." It's another way to say circular logic. Wikipedia gives the following example:
        * Suppose Paul is not lying when he speaks.
        * Paul is speaking.
        * Therefore, Paul is telling the truth.

To make it somewhat on topic, the customer always loses in the end. The whole point of business is to take money from people.