In SPIN news, EMI and Apple iTunes are teaming up bring the masses copyright-free music.
Do you know what that means? It means you can share! Instead of having to authorize computers to listen to the music, digital rights mangement (DRM) is completely gone. Of course, this makes the individual songs a little more expensive, but if you and your friends get together and put some change together, you can share a song.
How funny that a post before I just wrote about Trent Reznor promoting his new album by releasing mp3s for fans to download for free? Now the world is going to be able to share music to each other through iTunes and they won't have that little prompt to tell them they can't. Good job, Apple.
I wonder what the artists will think about this, since they're not benefiting from this. They're probably downloading and sharing their favorite music too. They're humans, after all.
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