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The Price Of Going DRM-Free: Apple’s Hidden $1.8 Billion Music Tax

Cult of Mac found this 1/7/2009 on techcrunch.com

Nearly two years ago, Steve Jobs published an open letter to the music industry calling for the death of DRM (digital rights management). He convinced EMI to ditch DRM back in April, 2007, but the three other major music labels held out. Until today . Now all the songs on iTunes are ...