Nokia Music Store To Scrap DRM?
Noticing the need for consumer freedom in downloading, Nokia has decided to follow the big online music stores by removing the copy protection from their tunes.
Currently shackled with Microsoft’s PlaysForSure DRM, the 6 million tracks on Nokia’s download service hopes to sever ties and allow playback on other devices (read: iPods) by the close of 2009.
The all-you-can-eat Comes With Music service hopes to follow suit on dropping protection in 2010, a much more interesting proposition given the fact that unlimited downloads allow for a lot of free music for users.
However, with Virgin Media / Universal due to launch their own unlimited DRM-free music service in the UK by the end of the year, Nokia’s move seems less a case of pioneering and rather one of keeping up with a fast paced market.
A wise move, but the fear for both service providers and music labels is one of overzealous downloaders.
“You can’t have a subscription model where somebody on a monthly model of say $10, go on in January, download 6m tracks, and leave in February,” IFPI chief executive John Kennedy said to the Register when drawn on the issue.
With music becoming more ethereal thanks to streaming services like Spotify, there is no longer the need for music fans to horde their music nuts for the winter…so nothing for the them to worry about, is there?
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