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Albarn group first EMI act to ditch DRM

Following on from EMI's recent decision to make the nasty DRM go away, The Good, The Bad and The Queen (a supergroup/project comprising Damon Albarn from Blur/Gorillaz, Paul Simonon from the Clash, Simon Tong from Verve and Afrobeat legend Tony Allen) have become the first band on that label to release an album sans restrictions.There is a certain poignancy to this, given Albarn's recent assertion that he has converted to communism, apparently as a reaction to the Iraq war.
Written by David Meyer, Contributor

Following on from EMI's recent decision to make the nasty DRM go away, The Good, The Bad and The Queen (a supergroup/project comprising Damon Albarn from Blur/Gorillaz, Paul Simonon from the Clash, Simon Tong from Verve and Afrobeat legend Tony Allen) have become the first band on that label to release an album sans restrictions.

There is a certain poignancy to this, given Albarn's recent assertion that he has converted to communism, apparently as a reaction to the Iraq war. I'm not entirely sure that selling songs - with or without DRM - is the best way to strike at the heart of capitalism, but there you go...

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