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Apple to sell non-digital rights management music 

Apple has won the right to sell non-copy rights protected music on its ITunes store site.  Apple agreed with record labels such as, EMI, Warner, Sony, and thousands of others to sell their music on Apples ITunes sight without the music being copy protected.  The copy protection or digital rights management issue means that before when you downloaded music, you couldn’t transfer it to other systems as it could not be read, and also you could not share the music with your friends.  Now that there will be no copy protection on the music supplied to Apple by record labels, customer base will increase, as people will see no barriers to Apples ITunes downloads.  This small milestone will also give competitors such as Amazon MP3 an opportunity to gain more customers.  There will be a variation on the cost of the music, with more recent and popular music selling for higher prices, than the not so popular or recent brands.     

Source: Reuters Technology News – January 2009-01-07 

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