Apple to sell iTunes songs DRM free
Apple on Tuesday said every song in its iTunes library will be available without anti-piracy software by April.
The announcement came at a Macworld Expo keynote presentation at which Apple marketing vice president Phil Schiller unveiled a new top-end MacBook Pro laptop computer model and snazzy upgrades to Macintosh computer software.
"We worked with all major music companies and, starting today, iTunes will offer eight million songs DRM free and by the end of this quarter all 10 million will be DRM free," Schiller said. "All songs will be DRM free in iTunes at iTunes Plus." Recording studios have long insisted on digital rights management (DRM) software that prevents music from being copied.
