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Apple CEO Steve Jobs reaffirmed his position against copy protection in music downloads and outlined what the iTunes Store will be doing to promote interoperability between portable media devices during a speaking engagement at the EMI Group in London.

Starting in May, the iTunes Store will offer EMI’s catalog worldwide without copy protection, and those enhanced tracks will also be encoded at 256 Kbps AAC — twice the bit rate as current FairPlay-encoded tracks — for $1.29 each.

The existing DRM-enabled library will still be available at the standard $0.99 a track, allowing users to choose which version of the songs they want. Full album pricing, however, will remain the same: Users will not have to pay a premium for DRM-free full album purchases.

Jobs called the new DRM-free music option an “interoperability safety net,” meaning users can purchase tracks without worrying which brand music player they will load the songs on.

Source: Sci-Tech Today

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