Vodafone's music catalog goes DRM-free for mobiles and PCs

We were wondering (seriously, it has been on our conscience at night) which carrier would be the first to go completely DRM-free in respect to its music catalog, and now Vodafone has stepped in to claim said throne. This week, the operator has inked deals with Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and EMI Music to bring tunes to handsets and PCs sans any nasty DRM, and for those who already downloaded DRM-laced files in the past, they'll be able to upgrade to DRM-free without a charge so long as they do it soon. And to think -- something like this would've been stopped cold at the drawing board by record label execs just a few years back. Desperate times call for desperate measures, right?

[aleis Posted Mar 12th 2009 12:14PM]

isnt my omnia lovely :)

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 12th 2009 10:30AM]

Do you really want me to point out list of omnia shortcomings??starting with mediocre browser .

[stridermt2k Posted Mar 12th 2009 12:03PM]

So tether it to something with a better browser. No biggie\

I love my Omnia. The thing rocks with a little tweaking.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 12th 2009 10:26AM]

Drm free,,so means I could also use any song on iPod touch. So does this mean people still pay for music??? Wow, now that is even more amazing!!!! Btw this subpar phone can't replace my iPod touch,,,

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 12th 2009 11:20AM]

Unless you try to put a Sim in your iPod and make a call of course ;)

[aleis Posted Mar 12th 2009 11:47AM]

dude, why are you killing my dream mellow dude why?

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 12th 2009 10:36AM]

Compact Disc: introduced in 1982 through the genius of Philips and Sony. Aiming high for the times.
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16bit, 44.1KHz digital storage medium. No lossy codecs employed. Nearly always DRM-free. Can be converted to Any Damn Format You Please With Ease (ADFYPWE), now and in the future.

Still laughing at the lossy pre-recorded offerings giving us less in 2009.
http://flac.sourceforge.net

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 12th 2009 11:02AM]

Really, get the fuck over it. Stick with cd's and hear the difference.

Truth is, your hearing is probably not good enough to hear the difference between 256kbps and lossless.

Yea I have many lossless albums in iTunes but there isn't a big enough difference to justify it.

Now to get back on topic; kudos Voda another big step forward in freeing the consumer.

[Altairantares Posted Mar 12th 2009 11:23AM]

Yay for dead economies!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 12th 2009 12:55PM]

Major feature in vodafone move.... FREE UPGRADE TO OWNERS OF DRM MUSIC FILES... yes that is correct.