Engadget: It’s official: EMI music is now DRM-free. True to his word, Steve Jobs has “embraced it in a heartbeat” making it available for download from Apple’s iTunes store, first, starting in May.
It’s taken so long but now, even (one of) the Big Four realizes that DRM fails to prevent piracy yet succeeds at being an unnecessary nuisance for the vast majority of law abiding consumers.