iTunes freed from DRM

DRM is “digital rights management”, and is a label usually attached to music files like mp3s purchased over the internet at vendors like Napster, eMusic or iTunes.  Music files with DRM are restricted in the sense that they cannot be easily transferred from one computer to another with playability intact.  When it’s moved to a computer after being purchased, the file usually cannot be played.  Well, Apple finally got rid of this restriction.  Other vendors have already done so either completely or in a limited fashion.  But Apple iTunes really is the 8 billion pound gorilla in online music sales, and their action portends a turning point in online music vending.  What this means is that we’re free to copy, trade this music (in accordance with copyright law of course), principally this allows us to move these files around different computers and still retain the ability to play them.  About time I think.