Thread: DRM on e-books? Five possibly good reasons to crack it
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Old 08-29-2013, 07:54 AM   #40
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Originally Posted by cromag View Post
Itunes didn't drop its DRM until well after Amazon started selling DRM-free MP3s, IIRC. Competition can be very convincing.
EMI started selling DRM free music on iTunes before Amazon opened the mp3 store. Jobs was pressuring for DRM removal, and EMI was dropping copy protection on CDs anyway (They had been dropping it since 2004, but not re-mastering or re-printing any dics inserts, so it took a long time to filter out). The rest of the big music companies waited unitl their contrancts ran out before going drm free. Amazon opened with DRM free music from Sony, EMI, Univeral, and Warner because they were going DRM free on iTunes eventualy anyway.

We closed the last EMI CD plant about a month after going DRM free on iTunes. I had been working for EMI for 21 years.
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