iTunes will soon be DRM-free. Oh yeah!
http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/01/apple-promises.html
2009 is looking better already!
The article doesn’t mention this, but you can also make prior purchases DRM-free for $0.30 per song.
Not worth it for me, but I’m glad future purchases will be DRM-free.
That’s excellent. Thanks for letting me know.
At some point I will probably take advantage of that.
Good move, but late in the game.
Amazon has had DRM-free MP3 downloads for months now…I figure they were starting to feel the impact of that.
–James
I thought it wasn’t Apple that was doing it, but the companies they were dealing with…am I wrong on that one?
There’s really not that clear a point of demarcation…the companies have to sign off on it, but so does Apple, and their negotiations, as I understand, bind both of them.
Disclaimer: IANAL (I am Not a Lawyer)…so I probably don’t know what I’m talking about. 
–James
http://xkcd.com/527/
Mouse over the comic for the pertenant tooltext.
It was Apple that was doing it,
but at the behest of the labels.
Whoever folded, the end result
is no DRM in iTunes…