Yahoo's warning shot at iTunes?

Posted on Friday, Jul 21, 2006 at 10:33 AM in

Yahoo music is selling a music file as a plain vanilla MP3 file with no DRM.  Could this position them to compete against iTunes effectively?  Only if music available as a protected AAC file on iTunes is also purchasable as a plain MP3 file on Yahoo! Music.  From slashdot.  The rationale is on the Yahoo! music blog.

Our position is simple: DRM doesn’t add any value for the artist, label (who are selling DRM-free music every day — the Compact Disc), or consumer, the only people it adds value to are the technology companies who are interested in locking consumers to a particular technology platform.

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