aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Wal-Mart offers 94¢ DRM-free songs

And they play on all players:

Wal-Mart’s online music store started selling songs free of copy-protection technology Tuesday for 94 cents per tune.

The songs from the Rolling Stones, Coldplay and Maroon 5, among others, will play on most portable media devices, including Apple Inc.’s iPod.

Via Cory Doctorow, “a marked contrast from Wal-Mart’s downloadable video store, which sucks so hard it practically implodes...”