First of all, good news from Techcrunch: Sony-BMG has agreed to sell their music DRM-free on AmazonMP3.

This means that Amazon is now selling unrestricted music from all four major labels. Yay! That basically means the end of DRM for music which is a totally pro-consumer move. Anything you download from Amazon will play on all your computers, all your iPods, all your CD players, forever and ever.

The frustrating comment comes at the end:

We expect Steve Jobs to announce the addition of Sony-BMG music without DRM to iTunes at MacWorld next week. But for now, Amazon has them all to themselves. Amazon now has 3.25 million DRM-free tracks in their library, compared to just 2 million at iTunes. ITunes has a far larger DRM catalog, but, really, do those tracks even count any more?

Of course those tracks count!

In June, iTunes became the third largest retailer of music in the country. The vast, vast majority of their sales have been of DRM-laden files. Apple seems to be trying to go DRM-free, and good for them, but seriously, they’re doing juuust fine selling DRM.

Sheesh, Mr. Techcrunch. Think this through a little, will you!