Microsoft Set to Unlock EMI Songs, Too

linumax writes "Microsoft has stated that it may be close to reaching a deal with EMI to sell songs without anti-piracy protection via the Zune platform. This, from comments made by head of marketing for Zune Jason Reindorp. They come hard on the heels of EMI's announcement that a deal with Apple to sell songs without DRM protection through the iTunes Music Store has been struck. Mr Reindorp said: 'We've been saying for a while that we are aware that consumers want to have unprotected content. This does open things up a little bit. It potentially makes the competition more of a device-to-device or service-to-service basis, and will force the various services to really innovate.'"

not only that ..

[rs232]

Not only that but they innovated the idea before Apple ever did !!

Splendid!

[LordPhantom]

Now, let's hope the albums cost less than the current store CDs, given the reduced material and sales costs. I'm sure that's what will happen, right?

Now that the eight Zune owners in the world...

[Anonymous Coward]

...are done rejoicing, can we appropriately tag this article as irrelevant and slownewsday?

A MS Strategic Meeting

[AVee]

Hi, i'd like to welcome you all to our monthly bussiness strategy meeting. The agenda of this months meeting is basically the same as last month:
1. What has Apple been doing this month?
2. What has Google been doing this month?
3. Are there other interesting things to copy?

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Re:Time to ... Wait!

[Paulrothrock]

Like all Microsoft products, it will blow chunks until 3.0 so keep waiting.

That's completely untrue.

Word blew chunks until 6.0

Just like they invented the GUI

[ClosedSource]

Apple was the first company that ever offered DRM-free downloads, right?

Re:Splendid!

[Anonymous Coward]

Although parent was meant to be sarcastic, I agree with it 100%. Profit, patents, and capitalism are evil. Solution? Eliminate them and force everyone to a communist based economy. COMMUNISM FTW!!!!!!!!!!!

Re:Price comparison

[Clock Nova]

Okay. . .

Actually, when you factor in the shipping and handling, iTunes is the cheapest place to buy it.

Hmmm. That felt good.