Jessica Simpson’s song ‘A Public Affair’ has become Yahoo!’s first music download from a major record label without copy protection.
The blonde songstress’ new track doesn’t have the annoying digital rights management (DRM) restrictions which are found on music from other download services.
The lack of copy protection means the MP3 can be transferred to any digital music player, including iPods.
Yahoo!’s director of product management Ian Rogers says: "We've been publicly trying to convince record labels that they should be selling MP3s for a while now.
"Our position is simple: DRM doesn't add any value for the artist, label (who are selling DRM-free music every day - the Compact Disc), or consumer, the only people it adds value to are the technology companies who are interested in locking consumers to a particular technology platform."
