Thread: DRM on e-books? Five possibly good reasons to crack it
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Old 08-29-2013, 08:26 AM   #41
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Originally Posted by 5thWiggle View Post
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.

Thanks for a view from the inside. I had forgotten that EMI went DRM-free before Amazon started selling MP3s.

EMI dropped DRM at iTunes in April 2007 (although at a premium price). Amazon's DRM-free MP3 store opened (in beta) in September 2007, and with DRM-free music from the big companies in January 2008.
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