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March 2nd, 2010, 05:38
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While not widely touted, Nokia's Ovi Music store is on track to make Nokia's music catalog DRM-free globally. This was first mentioned in December at Nokia's Capital Market Days (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/nokia-promises-to-take-symbian-user-interface-to-a-new-level-i/) event. Keep in mind that we're talking about Nokia's a la carte music download service, not its all you can eat Comes with Music (http://www.engadget.com/tag/comes%20with%20music) offering that lets you keep all the tracks you can download in the first year but locks them to a single Nokia handset and PC for life. Russia's Ovi Music store was the first to go DRM-free back in November while adding single sign-on with other Ovi services during the revamp process. Now we're hearing that India has quietly joined suit with its Nokia Music store becoming the DRM-free Ovi Music incarnation. Nokia is apparently focusing on growth markets first on its way to more western markets but it's a good sign that its fair use (http://www.engadget.com/tag/fair%20use) debilitating DRM is on the way out -- a good thing for consumers and a change, like free Ovi Maps (http://www.engadget.com/tag/ovi%20maps), that makes Nokia handsets just a bit more attractive.Nokia Ovi Music store slowly shedding its DRM shackles globally (http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/nokia-ovi-music-store-slowly-shedding-its-drm-shackles-globally/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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While not widely touted, Nokia's Ovi Music store is on track to make Nokia's music catalog DRM-free globally. This was first mentioned in December at Nokia's Capital Market Days (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/nokia-promises-to-take-symbian-user-interface-to-a-new-level-i/) event. Keep in mind that we're talking about Nokia's a la carte music download service, not its all you can eat Comes with Music (http://www.engadget.com/tag/comes%20with%20music) offering that lets you keep all the tracks you can download in the first year but locks them to a single Nokia handset and PC for life. Russia's Ovi Music store was the first to go DRM-free back in November while adding single sign-on with other Ovi services during the revamp process. Now we're hearing that India has quietly joined suit with its Nokia Music store becoming the DRM-free Ovi Music incarnation. Nokia is apparently focusing on growth markets first on its way to more western markets but it's a good sign that its fair use (http://www.engadget.com/tag/fair%20use) debilitating DRM is on the way out -- a good thing for consumers and a change, like free Ovi Maps (http://www.engadget.com/tag/ovi%20maps), that makes Nokia handsets just a bit more attractive.Nokia Ovi Music store slowly shedding its DRM shackles globally (http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/nokia-ovi-music-store-slowly-shedding-its-drm-shackles-globally/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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