Following Steve Jobs’ ant-DRM post, people began to wonder if Apple was just pointing fingers or really willing to distribute DRM-free music via their online store. Yesterday we learned the answer.
Apple and EMI announced yesterday they would offer DRM-free 256bit AAC premium downloads, priced at $1.29 each.
Apple, DRM, DRM-free, EMI, ITMS, digital restrictions management, digital [...]

Posted April 3, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Copyrights & Intellectual Property, Technology. Tags: apple, digital restrictions management, digital rights management, drm, DRM-free, EMI, itms, itunes, iTunes Store. One Comment.

Steve Jobs’ Thoughts On Music is surprisingly open and frank, almost blog-like, for the man and the company especially know for keeping secrets.
Jobs is addressing complaints about Apple’s “proprietary” DRM used in the iTunes Music Store.
There is no theory of protecting content other than keeping secrets. In other words, even if one uses the most [...]

Posted February 7, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Copyrights & Intellectual Property. Tags: apple, drm, ipod, itms, itunes, music, music digital rights management, music stores, steve jobs. 2 Comments.

I can’t explain why, at least not yet, but I’m looking for a way to search the iTunes Music Store catalog outside of iTunes. Rumors of an iTunes-Google partnership have been flying lately, but what I really want is a webservice/API I can use. Yes, Apple offers an affiliate program that supports direct links, but [...]

Posted August 24, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: itms, itms-4-all, itunes, itunes music store, itunes music store api, music store, music store api, pymuscique, webservice, webservices, xml. 10 Comments.