There has been a rumour doing the rounds on the net that iTunes will start to offer DRM-free music from all four major record companies as of today.
While Amazon MP3 has been selling DRM-free MP3s from all four majors in the US since the start of the year, and 7Digital, Play.com and Amazon all now sell DRM-free MP3s from all four majors over here, the market leader download store from Apple still only sells DRM-free tracks from EMI and independent record companies. The other three majors have so far not done a DRM-free deal with Apple, possibly in a bid to give Amazon et al the chance to gain some ground on what many in the industry consider to be the overly dominant iTunes.
Anyway, presumably DRM-free music will reach iTunes one day, and some gossipers have been saying that day is today. However, there has been no official word from the labels or Apple on this, and Greg Sandoval on CNet wrote this morning: "Rumors coming out of Europe that claim Apple will begin offering unprotected music files from the three largest recording companies on Tuesday are bogus, according to my music-industry sources".