print versionEMI announced it will start selling mp3 in Russia on Jun 5 with Soundkey.ru online music store. Soundkey was founded at the end of last year to act on the direct label-to-store licensing scheme as opposed to Allofmp3.com 'legal piracy' model. Although EMI was first to release tracks without DRM protection in Apple's iTunes store, its Russian represantative say, the company is not ready yet to do this on Russian market. At the moment Soundkey is selling 10,000 albums from Sony BMG, $0,58 per song. 'It may take EMI a year or so to offer DRM-free mp3 to Russian consumers", Soundkey's CEO Sonya Sokolova assumes.
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