Amazon.com, Wal-Mart.com, Best Buy, Rhapsody and others will sell “thousands” of digital rights management-free songs from the Universal catalog as the company tests the waters. The DRM-free music won’t be available on iTunes — Universal says it wants to use that user-pool as a control group during the experiment. The songs will come in plain-Jane MP3 format – which you can do just about anything with.
Earlier this summer, Universal decided against a long-term deal with iTunes
