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Originally Posted by gweeks
I have no proof for this, but my take from watching it happen was the the music labels realized that Apple's walled DRM garden was the only one that was working economically and realized how much power that gave Apple over them. The decided no DRM was better than dealing with Apple on an exclusive basis and started cutting no DRM deals with other vendors. They then went back and got rid of DRM at Apple.
Greg
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That's pretty much as I remember it. The music labels agreed to let Amazon start up their mp3 store with no DRM as a counter to Apple, then within a year (don't remember the exact timing), they agreed to let Apple sell no DRM. Apple had been pushing for no DRM for a number of years before the music labels agreed.
DRM for music never made much sense. Anyone and everyone could and did easily rip CD's.