In a story over on HypeBot it appears EMI could be looking to sell off it’s recorded music division in an effort to pull themselves out of the profit black hole they seem to have fallen into. So in an effort to cut costs and boost their share price the board is said to be “seriously considering it”.

Sources are reporting that since EMI’s original proposal of offering DRM free MP3s didn’t go over too well with record labels (imagine that) they — EMI — came back with an offer where the labels would give EMI an advance on future royalties. Full Story »

Digital Rights Management or DRM is a term which includes various technologies which publishers or copyright owners use in order to control the access and the ways in which you use data such as an mp3 file or hardware such as an iPod. It is a form of copy protection basically so companies can keep control over content so it does not get sold via the internet and then transfered between people for free. Full Story »

It appears the times they are a changin! Major announcements and possible shadow motives are causing quite the buzz in the digital music industry. Announcements and grand standing and DRMs, oh my! EMI is reported (BugMeNot login info) to be making the move towards unrestricted digital music sales. That means good old fashioned MP3s with no DRM! So could this really be happening? Full Story »