Amazin Amazon?

I just want to give a quick shout out to Amazon.com for taking a step in the right direction (however small it may be) in regards to digital music downloads. As you may already be aware, the company has just launched a battleship to combat the massive Death Star that is the iTunes music store.

Its secret weapon: NO DRM!!! And they also knock off a few cents on certain songs just for the hell of it. It’s not yet payment optional (see Radiohead), but so far EMI and Universal (along with thousands of indie labels) have agreed to release their death grip on a few million tracks of sweet, sweet music to be sold without any stupid encoded restrictions so that if you do choose to purchase music you can actually own what you are buying and do with it as you like. That’s one small step for the music industry…….and uh…..yeah, that’s about it, one small step for the music industry.