The recording label EMI is apparently the only one that has considered dropping DRM in favor of a “clean” music format. However, not all is green in music land, because in order to do so, they request what everyone wants to have: money, and according to Bloomberg, it was a considerable quantity:
EMI has backed out of talks for now because no one will pay what they’re asking. No dollar amounts are known at this time.
In all honesty, I honestly hope that this doens’t lead to a dark age of music “split up”. On one hand we’d be able to purchase “limited” tracks from online stores, on the other hand, we’d be able to purchase non-DRM’ed file, just like in the good old days of Napster, but, we’d have to choose our music according to the record label that is selling them.
Despite owning a few albums that suposedly come with “copy protection” technology, I have never been unable to rip the music out of any of them, and with popular programs also, like iTunes and Windows Media Player. If the iTunes store music became DRM free I’d certainly purchase more albums online.
