News and Articles

The computer company Apple announced on Tuesday that deleted the end of March antipiracy devices of music it sells on its iTunes platform.

The announcement came during the exhibition Macworld Expo in San Francisco (California, western United States) which introduced the new MacBook Pro computer and updating the range of Macintosh programs. These developments were presented by the vice president of marketing for the company, Phil Schiller.


"We have worked with major houses discs and from today, iTunes will offer 8 million songs without DRM (Digital Rights Management) and the end of the quarter will have 10 million songs without DRM," said Schiller.

Record companies would militate for the Internet can not buy songs or an album without those devices that limit the acquisition to a single consumer.


In addition, Apple announced the end of the single tariff of 99 cents per song in the United States, which is interpreted as a concession to the companies who were asked to time Apple asked for more money to download music from iTunes.

From now the rate will be agreed by the publishers of music and songs can be sold for 69 cents, 99 cents or $ 1.29.