Jan 11
Sony BMG, last major label holding out,
will sell music on Amazon with no copy protections
Sony agrees to music deal Associated Press Article Launched: 01/11/2008 01:58:41 AM PST
Sony BMG Music Entertainment, the last major music label holding out against selling music online without copy protection, relented Thursday and announced that Amazon.com.’s digital music store will carry songs by its artists. Sony BMG had resisted selling songs from its catalog without embedding Digital Rights Management coding, which prevented them from being copied. Amazon’s digital music store sells songs only in the MP3 format, which can be burned onto CDs, copied to multiple PCs and played on any number of digital media players, including Apple’s iPod and Microsoft’s Zune.
-Associated Press