The article says the following: "...consumers will be able to make permanent copies of songs and transfer them to recordable CDs, portable music players and their computer hard drives."
This implies a format with DRM extensions. Since Real DRM is (last I checked) extortionately expensive and has little ground in the market, I would wager they have gone for Windows Media. This is an educated guess though (despite being a bit of a no-brainer), as I have worked with EMI Group before on their digital music projects and they always chose WM or Real over the other commercial formats available.
On a side note I'd say it's a guarantee - DRM or not - that MP3 is a format that will never be used commercially by any recording company.
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The article says the following: "...consumers will be able to make permanent copies of songs and transfer them to recordable CDs, portable music players and their computer hard drives."
This implies a format with DRM extensions. Since Real DRM is (last I checked) extortionately expensive and has little ground in the market, I would wager they have gone for Windows Media. This is an educated guess though (despite being a bit of a no-brainer), as I have worked with EMI Group before on their digital music projects and they always chose WM or Real over the other commercial formats available.
On a side note I'd say it's a guarantee - DRM or not - that MP3 is a format that will never be used commercially by any recording company.