From the San Francisco Chronicle:
Music fans will now be able to download songs from iTunes and play them on any digital music player - not just the iPod -- after Apple Inc. and EMI announced a new deal Monday.
The new deal also means that consumers will be able to share the songs with their friends, without restrictions.
In a press conference in London, Apple CEO Steve Jobs and record label EMI said that the record label will sell tracks that are free of digital rights management technology, or DRM, the software that prevents songs downloaded from iTunes to be widely shared.
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And in other news, also from the SF Chronicle:
European Union regulators are investigating Apple Inc.'s iTunes online music store for possible violation of competition rules, a British newspaper reported Monday.
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