Nokia Comes With Music won’t Come With DRM any more

Nokia is to drop Digital Rights Management (DRM) on tracks available through its Comes With Music service.

Comes With Music has pretty liberal-sounding terms that let you download and keep as much music as you like – as long as you only play it on registered devices, that is. No copying it onto your iPod for listening at the gym, or burning it to a CD to listen to in the car, for example.

If a report on Mobile Entertainment is to be believed, however, Nokia may be about to ditch its DRM scheme and start distributing music in MP3 format. ME reckons that Nokia execs said as much at the UK N97 launch last night.

Comes With Music tracks are currently protected by Microsoft’s PlaysForSure DRM system and it is not clear how Nokia would go about phasing out the system – would anyone who has already bought tracks be able to get DRM-free versions of them? No doubt there would be a few legal hoops to jump through too, but there is no denyingthat this would be a good move for Nokia and could even give the flagging Comes With Music service a much needed boost.

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