Hans Across The Interwebs

Now that the largest online and offline retailers are demanding you un-DRM your music, what are you going to do, record industry?

Of course, of course, on any other issue Walmart totally sucks. But this could be good for consumers.

Wal-Mart to record labels: Ditch DRM!: “Wal-Mart has reportedly demanded that the major labels release more of their catalog in DRM-free MP3 format, apparently buoyed by the relative success of their DRM-free MP3 store”

via Boing Boing

By the way, the amazon drm-free music store: still not available in Europe. I’m sad.

So I was just able to buy a 256k DRM-free version of George Harrisson’s ‘Sweet Lord’, to replace my earlier downloaded 128k version. Seeing as how I’m in Europe and the Amazon store doesn’t actually work here, this was my first opportunity to obtain DRM-free music download’s legally. Quite an event, really. These Apple people are really on to something. DRM-free…what’ll they think of next? an iPod that’ll play Xvid? We can but dream.

Now if only ALL music in the iTunes store was DRM-free…