Danish Music goes Apple
The largest Danish publisher of music, The Music Business Organisation MBO, decided today to release 10000 tracks in a non-drm format, allowing for free transfer of music from one device to another.
Thereby also DMO follows the Apple-CEO Steve Jobs in his call to “abolish DRMs entirely”.
Copyrights off course still works for music, and to ensure that music is not “stolen” DBO introduces Watermarks to their musicfiles, making it possible to track a given file and identify who the “true owner” of the file is.
Among the artists to be released are Alphabeat and Big Fat Snake.
[…] Kan det passe? Ovre på New Media Trends skriver Jon Lund at den danske musikdistributør (?) MBO har tænkt sig at følge i EMI’s fodspor og tilbyde musik-downloads uden drm (digital rights management; forkrøblede filer, der besværliggør visse former for brug af filerne). Hvis det er rigtigt, er det endnu et skridt i den rigtige retning! […]
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Nye toner fra netmusik.dk…
Der har længe rumlet rygter om, at DRM er på vej ud af de danske net-musikbutikker. Senest har MBO (Music Business Organisation) i en pressemeddelse (se kommentaren) udtalt, at de nu vil sælge musik i vandmærket mp3, der kan afspilles på alle plat…
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