Following on from our post last night, today's Wall Street Journal says that EMI is going to drop DRM from its online songs:
In a major break with the music industry's longstanding antipiracy strategy, EMI Group PLC is set to announce today that it plans to sell significant amounts of its catalog without anticopying software, according to people familiar with the matter.
The London music company is to make its announcement at a London news conference featuring Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs. EMI is to sell songs without the software -- known as digital rights management -- through Apple's iTunes Store and possibly through other online outlets.
The article, EMI to Sell Music Without Anticopying Software, is however behind the WSJ's paywall at present.
Selling tracks without DRM might take some of the heat off Apple, which has been pressured by some European countries to "open up" - that is, license - its FairPlay DRM to others. Apple hasn't budged on that one.
Anyway, wait another three hours or so...
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