Amazon has courted all four of the major music labels over the past couple of weeks to bring DRM free music to their store by May.
It's an unsurprising move. The Apple/ EMI announcement earlier this month stated that EMI would be making the same deal with other music stores. Amazon clearly want a part of that, and by extension, a part of the huge iPod user base.
Billboard has already reported that Universal will be selling DRM free classical music through Amazon, and if they manage to make a deal with EMI then this turns into a domino run where the other companies might quickly tumble.
This is good news all round. Consumers will have a lot more choice in where they buy and where they can play their music, the online stores get to sell content onto iPods and the record companies might start making enough money to stop them suing everyone.
Bring it on, iTunes: Amazon readying DRM-free music service [Ars Technica]
Amazon set to launch online music store [The Times]
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