DRM-Free Music: Some News from Apple-EMI Partnership

While engineers from both companies are working on the deployment of such DRM-free music tracks catalog, an insider has sent us some additional information:

The final agreement between Apple and EMI for offering DRM-free music on iTunes Store has been finalized last week. So after Amazon and VirginMega. The availability of 256k sound quality and DRM-free tracks will then be according to signatures. They are working on re-encoding music tracks and the official availability is supposed to be finished soon, ultimately by the end of the month. The goal is to release the entire DRM-free EMI catalog on iTS at once, and not track by track, excepted for the Beatles.

So we should hear about soon...