EMI has signed deals with 20 top European websites to sell its music online. According to Reuters, ‘Consumers will be able to make permanent copies of songs and transfer them to recordable CDs, portable music players and their computer hard drives’. This represents a major shift in policy by EMI, who previously went to great lengths to protect their music from copying. Does this mark the beginning of a major change in the music industry?
Reuters | Latest Financial News / EMI Unveils Major European Online Music Push