All Gadgets Aside...

This morning Apple and EMI announced a major breakthrough in Digital music distribution by announcing that next month Apple will start offering DRM free music from EMI through its iTunes music store. DRM songs will still be available for the standard price of $.99(upgradable to DRM free for $.30) and they will offer "Premium Songs", which are DRM free and twice the quality, for only $1.29. All of EMIs music videos will also be available DRM free. What does all this mean for the common user? It means that you will no longer have to have and iPod to listen to your music on the go. You will be able to put your DRM free music on to any portable music player that supports AAC format. Steve Jobs went on to say that they plan on offering 2.5 Million DRM free songs by the end of the year from a variety of record labels.

This is huge news for the music industry and especially for those of you who are gadget geeks and don't necessarily want to own an iPod.