Amazon.com plans to launch a digital music store later this year, featuring music downloads without copyright restrictions. The e-commerce giant announced Wednesday that it would offer songs from more ...

Amazon's Tuesday launch of a DRM-free music store with some 2 million tracks represents the music industry's clearest repudiation yet of the elaborate copy-protection schemes it once staked its future ...

The report that Sony BMG is moving to DRM-free downloads represents the music industry's white-flag concession that its copyright-protection scheme created a powerhouse in Apple's iTunes Store while ...

Warner Music Group has begun selling DRM-free downloads through Amazon.com. Taking effect Thursday, WMG has ended its MP3 holdout by offering works from its digital audio catalog to buy from Amazon ...

If Amazon's music store going international wasn't enough digital music news for you today, 7digital took the liberty of announcing its international roll-out plans today, and its CEO took time out to ...

Wal-Mart will soon shut down the servers controlling reauthorization of purchased DRM (digital rights management)-protected WMA music files, Ryan Halford, the company’s computer buyer, indicated on a ...

There’s an intriguing rumor ahead of today’s Apple keynote at Macworld: The company has successfully negotiated with the major record labels to drop DRM copy protection from all tracks in iTunes. And, ...

EMI Music today announced that it is launching new premium downloads for retail on a global basis, making all of its digital repertoire available at a much higher sound quality than existing downloads ...

Music fans have long decried Steve Jobs and Apple for the copy protection on songs sold on its iTunes Music Store. Such copy protection, known as Digital Rights Management (DRM), places restrictions ...

Digital Rights Management is a scourge we all live with in order to download music digitally (and legally) over the Internet. But lately companies are making moves to change that. (Side note: My ...

Just as Sony gets its groove on after Warner's recent decision to exclusively support the Blu-ray HD disc format, the company's musical arm is apparently preparing to wrap DRM up in a black bin liner, ...

I thought I would try out downloading one of the DRM-Free digital comic books so I headed over to Dynamite Digital and scan through their 10 cent books. I realized that I had most of them and decided ...