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Ministry advocates DRM-free route.
Dance label Ministry of Sound has waded into the digital rights management issue, criticising major labels for "severely restricting consumer choice".
The label today (Monday) launches a DRM-free online music store (www.mosdownload.com) with a variable pricing structure. It opens with 60,000 tracks available, rising to more than 100,000 by the end of the year.
Ministry of Sound group managing director Lohan Presencer says having DRM on digital downloads is "a sort of a nonsense". "It limits the player that you can play the music on and it makes you incompatible with iPods - the most popular player on the market," he says.
"I think that DRM primarily limits the choice to consumers. We believe it serves no purpose in the long run, because if someone really wants to copy music, they'll do it anyway. We hope the major record companies will start making DRM-free product available because at present they are severely restricting consumer choice."
In addition to being DRM-free, the Ministry store offers a ...
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