Universal Music Goes DRM Free

[DudeAsInCool]

Boing-Boing reports that "Universal Music -- who are usually the most extreme piracyphobes in the music industry -- have announced that they're going to try selling much of their catalog without DRM from now until January. What caused them to change positions? Fear of an iPod Planet.

The iPod plays two kinds of music: music crippled with Apple's DRM and MP3s. If you want to cripple your music with Apple's DRM, you have to give Apple total control over your track-pricing. No other store can carry Apple-crippled music. Every time we buy an Apple-crippled track, it gets that much harder and more expensive to switch away from the iPod and iTunes."

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[NelsonG]

What are they talking about? I've always gotten Universal Music artist's mp3's DRM free. In fact, they give them away over at KCeasy. What? That's not free?