iTunes Plus Announced - DRM-Free Music
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007 | Apple News, Apple View, Software
Apple Inc. launched today iTunes Plus, which is a service part of the iTunes music store that offers music DRM-free. Currently, only music from the recording label EMI is available in this format. These music tracks come at a little higher price. If you want the freedom of doing whatever you want with your music, you will need to pay an extra 30 cents per track.
Apple plans to have 50% of the iTunes music collection to be available in the DRM-free format by the end of this calendar year. At the All Things Digital conference tonight Steve Jobs mentioned that there are small independent labels that are also signing up to have their music sold DRM-free. However, he did not mention any other major labels that are planning to participate in this quest for liberation.
In order to use the iTunes Plus service you will need to download iTunes 7.2, which was also released today. The new iTunes adds a link to iTunes Plus in the Quicklinks section. The first time you access iTunes Plus you will be asked to set some preferences and agree to another contract in addition to the one you agreed to when installing the software.
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