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Amazon.com - DRM-free MP3s

Thursday, September 27th, 2007


Photo: Noah Hall. Used under license.

Bizarre.

Not only does Amazon.com’s MP3 service sell 256k MP3s with no DRM at all… but it appears to work from the UK.

Order as normal. Use your amazon.co.uk username/password. Choose a credit card. It then asks you to update your address - I filled in my London address, and then chose “CA” for my state, and the ever faithful “90210″ as my ZIP code.

And I’m now the proud owner of a song (KD Tunstall, if you’re interested), for the sum of 44p instead of iTunes UK’s DRM’d 79p charge.

Amazon.com = iTunes killer.