Ubuntu to get integrated music store

The next release of the popular Linux distribution Ubuntu “will include a music store”:http://popey.com/blog/2010/02/19/ubuntu-one-music-store-sneak-peek/. The content will include major artists and is provided by “7digital”:http://about.7digital.net/AboutUs (owned by HMV). It will offer users of the free operating system easy access to high quality, DRM-free music at $0.99–1.49CAD per song. It may not seem like a big deal to users of other operating systems who have had this for years, but it demonstrates the strides Linux has taken recently. It also shows how the recording industry’s abandonment of DRM has opened new markets.