Report: Apple, Music Labels in DRM-Free Music Talks

Ever since the four major record labels allowed other stores like Amazon, Napster, and Rhapsody to sell MP3 music tracks without copy protection (DRM), we’ve been waiting for the other shoe to drop.

To date, only EMI has given Apple license to do that, under Apple’s iTunes Plus service. The other three labels have been reluctant to allow Apple the DRM-free licenses in a (misguided, we feel) effort to give some other music stores traction and reduce Apple’s dominance in the music retailer space.

That

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