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DRM Free Mp3s And Their Rewards
There has been an ongoing struggle about whether music being sold through online music retailers should be offered with or without digital rights management. "Digital rights management (DRM) refers to the control and protection of digital intellectual property (content), including documents, images, video and audio. DRM limits what a user can do with that content even when he has possession of it" (Kay, 2003, p. 33). In regards to music, this means that when you purchase a song that is encoded with DRM there are limitations as to what you can do with it. Recently the industry has begun to reposition itself to offering DRM free downloads. This move was initiated by EMI's decision earlier this year to offer their entire catalog DRM free. Doing this allows them to offer their catalog to many different online music retailers, not just the major ones such as iTunes. Independent labels soon followed suit as it allowed them to offer their product through......

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