Just before the end of the year, another blow is delivered to the stupid and hopefully soon to be forgotten concept of Digital Rights Management: Amazon MP3 now offers DRM-free MP3s from Warner Music Group's catalog.
If you're not following which artist signed for what label, here's a reminder of some of the big names from Warner's roster: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rob Thomas, Diddy, The Eagles, Green Day, Led Zeppelin, Madonna, Metallica. Yes, that Metallica.
Unlike iTunes, Amazon MP3 digital music store has gone DRM-free from the very beginning in September 2007, and it now offers over 2.9 million songs from over 33.000 record labels. Songs - MP3s encoded at 256 Kb/s - are priced from 89 to 99 cents. Overall, buying MP3s at Amazon is not as polished as in Apple's iTunes, but it works and the prices are good. See our initial thoughts about Amazon MP3 store here.