http://www.fastcompany.com/tag/over-air The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/kit-eaton/technomix/apples-itunes-drops-drm-adds-tiered-pricing-3g-downloads <!--paging_filter--><p><a href="/blog/kit-eaton/technomix/rumor-apple-drops-itunes-drm-enables-3g-downloads">This morning's rumors</a> were almost exactly bang on. As a surprise "one more one more thing" at the end of his Macworld Keynote, Phil Schiller dropped the news that iTunes was going to drop digital rights management for its music track library.</p> <p>Schiller started by pointing out that iTunes is the number one music retailer, the world's largest media library, and has sold over six billion songs in six years to over 75 million iTunes account holders.</p><p><a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/kit-eaton/technomix/apples-itunes-drops-drm-adds-tiered-pricing-3g-downloads">read more</a></p> drm apple fairplay Digital Rights Management Music itunes over-the-air MP3s tiered pricing Innovation Technology Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:41:03 -0500 Kit Eaton 1128135 at http://www.fastcompany.com http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/kit-eaton/technomix/rumor-apple-drops-itunes-drm-enables-3g-downloads <!--paging_filter--><p>There's an intriguing rumor ahead of today's Apple keynote at Macworld: The company has successfully negotiated with the major record labels to drop DRM copy protection from all tracks in iTunes. And, as a major bonus, it's likely to allow direct download of tunes over the airwaves to iPhones.</p> <p><img class="float-right" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3075/3173210935_d56e4a2a54.jpg?v=0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /></p><p><a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/kit-eaton/technomix/rumor-apple-drops-itunes-drm-enables-3g-downloads">read more</a></p> itunes DRM Music apple drm-free downloads itunes copyright fairplay record labels over-the-air Innovation Technology Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:27:31 -0500 Kit Eaton 1127246 at http://www.fastcompany.com