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Amazon launches DRM free MP3 service in the US | Comments (4)

Posted in Snippets on 25th September 2007, 3:20 pm by Stuart

Amazon.com are now offering DRM free MP3 Downloads, you can buy a single track or whole albums and prices range from $0.99 per track and from $5.99 per album. This is really great to see and I really hope Apple feels the pressure from the competition.

Via kryogenix.org and Engadget

Meh! As Stuart’s pointed out in the comments the service requires a US Billing address. Still I’ve no doubt this will be come available elsewhere in the future – Afterall iTunes started out that way.

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1. On September 25th, 2007 at 3:45 pm sil said:

Bleedin’ US-only, though. Bah!

2. On September 26th, 2007 at 8:44 pm Spatulala said:

I’m in the Uk and used it fine – you just need to enter a US state and zip code. I searched Google for “zip code WY” to get a list of matching Wyoming zip codes. Hey presto, bargain 256KB DRM-free music downloads until the industry tells Amazon to close it to UK credit cards, like iTunes does (or the dollar gets more expensive to us Brits)

3. On September 26th, 2007 at 9:34 pm Brad Wright said:

They don’t actually verify your address against your credit card, so just make one up!

A friend of mine recommends the following as your billing address:

Mr. Steve Jobs
1 Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014
408.996.1010

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