Apple, EMI enter pact for DRM-less music——Apple和EMI公司联合制作DRM音乐_苹果公司与emi合作

Apple, EMI enter pact for DRM-less music

Apple和EMI公司联合制作DRM音乐

Published: 2007-04-03

 

iTunes：Apple公司的一个软件， 整理、共享、聆听你电脑里的音乐最简单的方法。

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Technology pioneer Apple announced on Monday that the company had partnered with music company EMI to sell that firm's library of songs through its iTunes service without any digital-rights management (DRM) software in place.

技术领头羊苹果公司在星期一发表声明：苹果公司决定与EMI（百代唱片公司）公司合作，他们将联合推出一个歌曲库，这个歌曲库将没有任何版权。

The songs will be encoded at a higher quality than Apple's standard music files and cost a $1.29 per track, a 30 percent premium over the iTunes service's normal fare. Apple will also offer customers a one-click upgrade for any EMI songs previously bought from iTunes, at $0.30 a song. EMI's record labels include Angel, Astralwerks, Blue Note, Capitol, Capitol Nashville, EMI Classics, EMI CMG, EMI Records, EMI Televisa Music, Manhattan, Mute, Parlophone and Virgin, according to the company's Web site.

这些歌曲的编码质量将远远高于目前Apple公司的音乐文件标准，大约需要消耗1.29美元/磁道，这些额外费用将是iTunes日常费用的30%。Apple公司将提供客户方便快捷的服务，这项升级服务可通过iTunes进行，并且可以更新任何一首EMI公司的歌曲，不过每首歌曲大约需要花费0.3美元。通过Apple公司的网站，你可以得到EMI的唱片，这些唱片包括Angel，Astralwerks，Blue Note，Capitol，Capitol Nashville，EMI经典歌曲，EMI CMG，EMI唱片集，EMI Televisa音乐，Manhattan，Mute，Parlophone和Virgin。

“We think our customers are going to love this, and we expect to offer more than half of the songs on iTunes in DRM-free versions by the end of this year," Apple's CEO Steve Jobs said in a statement.

Apple公司首席执行官Steve Jobs声明：“我想我们的客户将会爱上这些新的音乐效果，我们将在今年年末推出一半以上的免费DRM音乐。”

The momentum behind nixing the security of digital music sold online came quickly. The deal between Apple and EMI comes less than two months after Jobs called for an end to digital-rights management protections on music files. The request, which came in an essay published on Apple's Web site, followed mounting criticism from the European Union and other lawmakers of Apple's dominance in the music player and services market. A week after the essay was published, other music services had echoed the request and rumors of EMI's talks with Apple surfaced.

 

（在这一举措之后，拒绝在网上购买音乐的情况递增。两个月之后，Apple公司和EMI公司作了调整，情况略微好转，Jobs要求数字版权管理需要保护。）『上面这句话的意思不好理解，谁来翻译一下』

一些呼声也在Apple的网站上出现，来自欧盟和一些音乐制作者，还有市场服务商对Apple的这一做法提出了质疑。一周后，这些批评无处不在，一些音乐提供商多次提出反对意见，一些人谣传EMI与Apple的商谈将公布。

Apple will encode the DRM-free music at 256-kbps in the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) format, the standard used by Apple for both iTunes and QuickTime. Music sold by the iTunes store with DRM is encoded with 128-kbps AAC.

Apple公司将编码DRM免费音乐，这些音乐的 格式为AAC（高级音乐编码）格式，速率为256Kb/s。这种标准以往用于iTunes和QuickTime播放器上。在iTunes上售卖的歌曲的格式为DRM，128Kb/s ，AAC格式。