Here’s a crazy twist to the DRM-free digital downloads story - Wal-Mart is selling digital music files on its website right now without the restrictive technology known as DRM. The world’s largest retailer now offers a new mp3 catalog with “thousands of albums and songs from major record labels such as Vivendi’s Universal Music Group and EMI,” for a mere 94 cents per track and $9.22 per album. That’s quite a discount compared to Apple iTunes’ price of $1.29 per track of DRM-free files! It’s even cheaper than a restricted file from iTunes! ([More →])




