Warner Music Group Sneaks Into DRM-Free Music World

noah | April 12, 2007 4:52 am
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EMI made a big stink about dropping DRM from its online offerings, but today Warner Music Group quietly started offering DRM-free files of its own through the site AnywhereCD, which sells full MP3 albums as well as MP3-album/CD bundles. Billboard.biz reports that the site, which was launched by the founder of MP3.com, only offers full albums–not single tracks–and that the MP3s users buy are ripped at 192 Kbps. Whether or not users will flock to the site remains to be seen, but this is definitely a curious move for Warner, given that WMG chairman Edgar Bronfman has been vocally pro-DRM in the past. (Maybe someone thought he wouldn’t notice?)

Warner Music Group Ditches DRM? [Billboard.biz, via Coolfer]