Category Archives: DRM

Rhapsody MP3 Store

Posted on 7/1/2008 by Ben

Rhapsody has launched a DRM-free MP3 store. This is a big improvement. Previously, their MP3s were locked in a ghetto in the Windows desktop software. Prices seem to be $1 per album higher than Amazon, even for Rhapsody subscribers.

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New Nine Inch Nails Album in MP3, CC-licensed

Posted on 3/3/2008 by Ben

Nine Inch Nails new 2-hour, instrumental album is now available in a plethora of digital formats, and several physical, collector-friendly formats. And you can get the first nine tracks for free. And it’s all distributed under a Creative Commons license. … Continue reading →

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Amazon MP3 Downloader for Linux

Posted on 2/29/2008 by Ben

Amazon MP3 now has a Linux version of their album downloader. It’s annoying (and puzzling) that music stores force you to use these proprietary downloaders instead of just pushing you the files in a zip or something, but at least … Continue reading →

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Deutsche Grammophon MP3s

Posted on 12/3/2007 by Ben

Deutshe Grammophon has launched a web store with 320kbps MP3s. I’m not sure how much of the catalog is available but several selections from NPR’s 50 essentials are there.

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Radiohead Web-only Album

Posted on 10/10/2007 by Ben

Radiohead’s new album, In Rainbows, is only available as a DRM-free MP3 download from their web site. You get to choose how much to pay for it. Right now the album web site is very slow but they seem to … Continue reading →

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Amazon MP3 Store

Posted on 9/25/2007 by Ben

I think the jig is up for DRM-ed music. Amazon has launched their MP3 store with 2 million indie and major label tracks, all DRM-free. You can still beat the price at eMusic and Audio Lunchbox but you can’t beat … Continue reading →

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Audiobooks at eMusic

Posted on 9/22/2007 by Ben

eMusic has launched DRM-free audiobooks at $9.99 for two books. The selection looks pretty good, too.

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Rhapsody MP3s

Posted on 9/2/2007 by Ben

Rhapsody is now selling DRM-free MP3s from Universal Music Group. Bizarrely, they are only available via the Windows-only desktop software, not the web site. On the plus side, they actually have one listing of all of the available MP3s, unlike … Continue reading →

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Wal-Mart MP3 Downloads

Posted on 8/23/2007 by Ben

The Wal-Mart music store is now selling DRM-free downloads for 94 cents per track or $7.88 per album. They are 256 kbps CBR MP3s. Boing Boing reports that they were blocking non-Windows machines but I didn’t have any trouble buying … Continue reading →

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Universal Music DRM-free

Posted on 8/10/2007 by Ben

Universal is the latest record company to try selling its music with no DRM. The music will be available through several music stores, but not iTunes, on a trial basis through January. Boing Boing says the files will be MP3s … Continue reading →

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Cost Analysis of Vista Content Protection Greatest Hits

Posted on 5/8/2007 by Ben

I listened to Cory Doctorow’s reading of A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection by Peter Gutmann. There are so many jaw-dropping passages in this paper that I thought a little collection of quotes would be useful for people … Continue reading →

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Other Music Digital Music Store

Posted on 4/23/2007 by Ben

Other Music have launched their digital music store with DRM-free indie music downloads. Go grab yourself a copy of Neon Bible or Destroyer’s Rubies.

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Rushkoff Switches to Ubuntu

Posted on 4/3/2007 by Ben

Author Douglas Rushkoff gets frustrated with Windows Vista, installs Ubuntu and loves it. I felt like quoting this entire post but I’ll restrain myself. Yes, I’m working on it right now, and it makes even the Mac OS seem like … Continue reading →

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DRM-free Music From iTunes

Posted on 4/2/2007 by Ben

Apple and EMI will be releasing EMI’s entire catalog as DRM-free, higher-quality audio files in May. They’ll cost extra, $1.29, but the album price is the same. This is really great news! [via Boing Boing]

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A Real Music Store Sprouts Online

Posted on 1/22/2007 by Ben

Speaking of Other Music, they are launching a digital music store. They’ll offer DRM-free high-quality MP3s at slightly higher than iTunes prices.

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