Amazon to Sell Music Without Copy Protection
May 19, 2007 
Amazon.com will sell music without copy protection when it opens its mp3 music store later this year:
Amazon, the Internet’s most successful seller of physical CDs, today announced plans to introduce a music download store later this year, selling songs and albums in the MP3 format without the anti-copying protection used by most online music retailers.
Selling songs as MP3 files means that customers can transfer their music without limits to any computer, cellphone or music playing device, including Apple’s iPod and Microsoft’s Zune.
The songs will include EMI’s catalog and music from over 12,000 independent music companies who don’t use copy protection.
Finally, an easy-to-use online music store that gets it. This sounds like exactly what consumers have been asking for since Napster! While the RIAA has resorted to suing their customers, all they really wanted was music without non-sensical restrictions on its use.
Take that, Apple iTunes! This Amazon music store could be the iTunes killer!
