Songs the company sells are no longer wrapped in copyright protection software. It's good for consumers and record labels, but will it also be good for Apple in the long term? CNET contributor Don ...

Apple Inc. has shaken up the online music world again with its announcement that iTunes would abandon digital rights management (DRM) and embrace variable pricing. The move by the world’s largest ...

Giveaway of the Day's DRM-stripping utility works as advertised, and today only you can get the $19.99 program absolutely free. Just be sure to use it for good, not evil. Rick Broida Senior Editor ...

Lost in the verbiage over Apple’s decision to expand the number of DRM-free songs on iTunes was a fee some are calling Apple’s ‘music tax’ potentially worth $1.8 billion to Cupertino. iTunes users ...

EMI Group, the UK-based record label that is awaiting a takeover by a private equity firm, posted lower revenue for its second quarter as CD sales plunged but indicated its DRM-free music experiment ...

First PyMusique circumvents iTunes DRM. Then Apple thinks they've patched the hole. Then PyMusic cracks the encryption used by iTunes 4.7, and here we go again.<BR><BR>Story.

France’s Parliament is considering legislation that would make it legal to crack the Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology that protects songs downloaded from Apple’s iTunes Music Store and other ...