Sony BMG Drops Music Copy Protection

January 8, 2008 By YURI KAGEYAMA, AP Business Writer

(AP) -- Sony BMG will start selling music downloads in the copy-protection-free MP3 format later this month in North America, as even the last holdout among the major record labels crumbled to the growing trend.

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