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Sony boss admits mistakes on copy protection

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

As the music industry continues its inevitable trudge towards a largely DRM-free future, there’s likely to be plenty of hat-eating and humble-pie feasting from execs, blogged joyously yet scornfully by the geek press.

Latest on the rack is Sony boss Howard Stringer, who has admitted (more…)

Nokia confirms DRM-free coming to Comes With Music

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

As Comes With Music launches in Singapore, Nokia’s director of global digital music retail Adam Mirabella says it’s looking to ditch DRM from its unlimited music initiative.

“We have dialogues going with all of our partners and Digital Rights Management-free is also on the roadmap for the future integration of Comes With Music,” he tells Channel News Asia.

Naturally, there’s no news on when this may happen, or how a DRM-free CWM would handle the issue of people being able to Bluetooth tracks to each other from their handsets. A simple lock on Bluetooth forwarding perhaps?

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