Are these the first steps towards the death of DRM'd music?

Major label EMI -- home of Coldplay and Norah Jones -- is in discussions with online music stores about selling its music without copy protection, or digital rights management (DRM), according to two sources with direct knowledge of the talks who would not speak for attribution because discussions are ongoing.

Heh. The beauty of this would be seeing Microsoft caught utterly flat-footed with PVP-OPM as reality starts to set in elsewhere. It's only a first move though - I expect a whole lot of crying, yelling, and fusspotting before this is over. Recall that the movie industry was convinced that the VCR meant the death of movies.