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MySpace Digital Music Service Is DRM-Free

Posted by kdawson on from the little-music-with-your-gossip dept.

Anti-Globalism sends word that MySpace flipped the switch on its online, ad-supported, DRM-free music service that will "... give its roughly 120 million users free access to hundreds of thousands of songs from the world's largest recording labels. Unlike much of the material at Apple's iTunes store, the music sold through MySpace's new service won't contain the protections that limit how many times a track can be copied. MySpace is hoping to set itself apart from iTunes even further by allowing its users to create an unlimited number of playlists containing up to 100 songs apiece, a sharing concept similar to music services already offered by Imeem and Last.fm."

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  1. DRM... MySpace... DRM... MySpace by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Tough choice.

  2. MySpace.com: We're still relavent! by pecosdave · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't go to Facebook because it's better and doesn't have nearly as many in your face annoying ads! Come back! See, easy pirate music!

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  3. Slowly becoming the WalMart of the Internet by xpuppykickerx · · Score: 2, Funny

    ranking right under Amazon. I wonder if Myspace will soon have a grocery delivery service.

  4. At least get it right... by cyber-dragon.net · · Score: 2, Funny

    This person obviously never used iTunes. Not that I think it is perfect but they are making it out like Apple chose to enforce copy protection. Why does everyone forget the label's forced it?

    Even so they got the tech side wrong. If you are going to bash something at least learn how it really works and what the real limitations and problems are, and include a few other services for comparison.

  5. MyPirateBay by hachete · · Score: 3, Funny

    How does this affect MyPirateBay again?

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