This would be amazing.  iTunes and the Digital Rights Management are currently discussing a very hot topic: whether to freely distribute certain MP3s.   The rumor this past week has concerned the verdict of these discussions and when both parties would meet a consensus.  Supposedly this date was December 9Th.  However, these rummors were just that and turned out only partially correct. 

There is good news though.  Apple is in negotiation with the three record labels (Sony, Universal, and Warner), and is in fact trying to get the music to be sold DRM-free. These negotiations are not going smoothly. But don’t lose hope, it is quite likely that we will have some sort of breakthrough, whether that be DRM-free music or not, in early 2009.

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1. Barry, December 18, 2008:

   Hi. First Merry Christmas can I have what ever you have been drinking. Apple giving something for nothing I don’t think so, remember Firmware 2.0 we had pay for that so that Apple could make more money from the sale of Apps. What have they ever given us Genius rubbish, Nike+iPod rubbish, iPod Touch 2G nothing Special apart from a Speaker and side volume control which is so low on volume you need an hearing aid to listen to anything. No I believe it is time for Apple to start giving us what we want for starters a Memory slot so that we can add more memory without having to buy a new iPod, Allow 3 party applications such as Cydia and Installer. Apple can always add a disclaimer like Moble Phone compainies do. I thought we lived in a free world, but Apple don’t so as for DRM I don’t think so, what’s the catch for us because I bet there is one, but for Apple they will make more billions from us and give us some gimmic crap in return. Have a happy New Year all of you and keep up the good work.