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A million reasons to like Monday

It looks like the music industry might be moving towards abandoing DRM on streaming audio, with two major on-demand music sites chucking the system in favour of their own unique security methods.

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Rounding up what just happened so you don't have to

Again!

Napster, the now completely legit online music service, has proved true to its CES announcement in January and launched a DRM-free music store.

Microsoft has announced that it will be switching off the MSN Music license servers at the end of this summer, leaving millions of users with a potential headache and potentially unplayable MP3s.

When Amazon announced its DRM-free music store last year, few expected that it would be breathing down the neck of Apple's iTunes just six months later.

Enough Radiohead and REM already

Can you see a pattern emerging?