DRM Abandoned

At last! DRM could soon be a thing of the past, hopefully.

DRM or "Digital Rights Management" is a copy protection facility which limits downloaded music to one player or restricts the amount of times a music track can be played.

Anyone using iTunes will know that you can only play your downloaded music on your iPod and can't copy it to any other MP3 player.

Soon you can share your music with anyone, (but your not supposed to). Music giants EMI are the first to announce they are scrapping DRM.

But all this will come at a cost to us. As Apple announces DRM free tracks will cost 99p as to the current 79p for DRM encoded music, but I suppose it's worth the little extra cost if you can use your music more freely.