EMI content DRM free on iTunes

If the press release were dated a day earlier I’d have been sure it was a joke. But it appears the anti-market EMI corporation may be the first major to start getting with the digital future. It might still be cheaper to just buy the physical media though…depends on whether they do $9.99 albums DRM free too.
And it is a bit odd that they’d have the DRM versions at all. Is $0.30/track enough to discourage somebody who wants to pirate music? No. Are people wanting to save a few cents a track seen as implicitly pirate-prone? Must be. The majors sure relate to their customers in strange ways.