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Rogers’ urMusic Store Goes DRM-Free

By: , IntoMobile
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 at 11:30 AM

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Hot on the heels of Telus’ announcement, Rogers has upgraded their urMusic MP3 store to include DRM-free files, allowing you to use purchased tunes on any device you want, unhindered. Considering the quoted price points between $0.69 and $1.29 per track and $20 monthly subscription for unlimited downloads are identical to Telus’ offering, I can’t help but think Rogers is getting their licensing from the same source.

Whatever the case may be, you can nab music from either their mobile site or a standard web browser. Unlike Telus, it doesn’t seem like Rogers will be supporting over-the-air downloads, so be prepared to sideload. Scratch that, OTA downloads will work just hunky-dory. Between Rogers, Telus, 7digital (who recently added scrobbling support) and Slacker all making concerted pushes into Canadian mobile music, I can’t help but wonder if something has changed deep in the bowels of intellectual property legislation to facilitate new music stores and services, but I certainly like it. With any luck, we’ll see the likes of Pandora and other digital music services that have so far had difficulties crossing the border.

Head over to urmusic.ca to get shopping right away, or rogers.com/urmusic to take a look at subcription plans and pricing.

[via Rogers]

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  • Kescan

    Absolutely worthless service, absolute piece of junk, would not recomend the service, DRM free is not true, they DO have DRM on the service, you cannot burn music to a disk or an MP3. Piece of junk program.

  • Kescan

    Absolutely worthless service, absolute piece of junk, would not recomend the service, DRM free is not true, they DO have DRM on the service, you cannot burn music to a disk or an MP3. Piece of junk program.