The debate over DRM-free music has been running for some time. DRM-free means music that you download for your MP3 Player and it is unlocked, so that you can use it on any player, any PC and copy it as much as you like.

However, is DRM-free music really needed anymore? How many people actually find DRM a problem? It’s quite possible that the move to have DRM-free music has come too late, because consumers just don’t care about it and don’t consider it to be an issue.

For example, iPod users don’t need to worry about it because they can copy their music from one Apple product to another without any issues, whether that be a Mac, an iPod or an iPhone. Anything downloaded from iTunes will work on any Apple equipment.

DRM doesn’t come into play for Apple users.

Then there are those people who just copy their own CDs, copy music from friends or download it from file sharing networks. DRM isn’t issue for them either because they’re not buying downloaded music in the first place. So how many people really are affected by DRM? It isn’t that many at all.

This means that music download sites such as Amazon and Napster, who are looking to offer DRM-free music, may have missed the boat with it all. Having music that’s DRM-free isn’t that big a draw for consumers because they don’t really consider it a problem in the first place.