This should also great news for iTunes buyers as the decision to supply DRM-free music via select services in the EU must surely contravene EU Anti-competition laws specifically around market sharing. They may have got away with it in the US but the EU is hot on this stuff. With any luck this should mean the tracks get added to the DRM-free iTunes Plus (though most of my favourites are already on there) so we can get it in this decade's music format (AAC) which plays on most modern devices anyway.

MP3? Whatver next? Duping the general public into buying VCDs instead of DVDs/Blu-ray discs like a Thai bootlegger?

McD