Amazon will Sell DRM-Free MP3 Downloads Worldwide

January 28th, 2008

On Sunday, Amazon.com announced plans to extend its MP3 music stores free of digital-rights management (DRM) worldwide.Amazon’s MP3 stores feature songs playable on virtually any digital-music device. It is the only retailer to offer customers DRM-free MP3s from all four major music labels as well as more than 33,000 independent labels.

“We have received thousands of e-mails from Amazon customers around the world asking us when we will make Amazon MP3 available outside of the U.S.,” Bill Carr, Amazon.com vice president of digital music, said. The company did not set a specific timeline for the change.

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