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iTunes about to go completely DRM–free?

Despite Steve Jobs professing his undying love of DRM–free music, the big record labels have been holding out on playing their wares minus copy

Dan Grabham Dan Grabham

However, it looks like iTunes is about to have a pre–Christmas push, adding Sony, Warner and Universal tracks to iTunes Plus. The other biggie, EMI, is already offering up its back catalogue without DRM.

The news comes courtesy of Apple Insider, who’ve unearthed plans from a French site for Apple to give their store a big push in the run up to Christmas. It would certainly make sense now both 7Digital and Amazon MP3 are offering completely DRM–free catalogues.

If the report’s true, then word is we could even be seeing an official announcement coming straight outta Cupertino later today. Let’s hope it’s not another false dawn. Stay right here for any developments as they happen.

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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Computing, mobile, audio, smart home