Nokia: DRM-free on roadmap for Comes With Music Music Store
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Nokia's all-you-can-eat music download service Comes With Music is interesting on many fronts. It gives users unlimited access to the online Nokia Music Store and they can keep the music, or even re-download them after the 12-month service period.
Here's the kicker. The tunes come with Digital Rights Management (DRM) and are playable only on the designated handset and PC.
Well, scrap that last point for now.
According to a report from news site Channel NewsAsia, the director for Global Digital Music Retail at Nokia, Adam Mirabella, said: "We have dialogues going with all of our partners and Digital Rights Management-free (DRM-free) is also on the roadmap for the future integration of Comes With Music."
Editors' note:
Update: Nokia has issued a correction saying that it is committed to going DRM-free for its Music Stores (not Comes With Music) this year and added that it is in talks with music industry players to see how it can evolve its unlimited music download service. What this means is that while DRM will be removed for a la carte purchases from the Music Store, tracks and albums downloaded with the Comes With Music service will still continue to have DRM. Below is the official statement reproduced in its entirety."Nokia's position has not changed. We have said that we are committed to going DRM-free on the Nokia Music Store in 2009. We feel that Comes With Music offers tremendous value and even with the DRM in place, it continues to have great appeal to our consumers. We are constantly discussing with music industry players on how to evolve Comes With Music and further enrich the proposition we currently have."
That's as much as the Finns are saying for now, so don't expect this to happen soon. At the very least, they are already looking at DRM-free. Apple's iTunes has already gone down that route. Now's your turn, Nokia.
Via Engadget
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