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In case you only believe things once they are in press release form, you'll be happy to hear that Apple's official statement re-confirms what
we already confirmed yesterday:
iTunes Plus DRM-free tracks will now cost 99-cents across the board. Like some of you commenters have already pointed out, competition is a sweet thing indeed.
UPDATE: According to Phil at Apple 2.0, "The Upgrade My Library feature...is
still charging existing customers 30% extra for DRM-free songs." So keep an eye on that. [
Apple]
George Harrison's catalog is now on iTunes, including a 2001 remaster of the
All Things Must Pass double album in 256Kbps DRM-free MP3 for just $9.99. Maybe this should be a Dealzmodo. [
iTunes]
poll
So we know that
Apple embeds your user data in those DRM-free
iTunes Plus songs. Some people have gotten up in arms about it, saying it constitutes a form of DRM, while others say you don't have anything to worry about if you're not planning on pirating the music.
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mt-who?
Apple
adds YouTube to Apple TV. EMI tracks are now sold
DRM-free on iTunes. The triangle completes itself today, as EMI announced that it would share a bunch of EMI
music videos on YouTube, and even "let" users integrate some of EMI's copyrighted material into their own homemade productions. Let's see what happens when (yes,
when) that content includes the entire Beatles catalog.
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ears on
Today is a big day for music downloaders, because iTunes is finally offering DRM-free music for your listening pleasure. To sweeten the deal, each also has a lighter AAC compression applied to it, 256kbps instead of iTunes' customary 128kbps.
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sorry, pirates
So now that you have
iTunes Plus that means you can go ahead and download DRM-free songs. Awesome, right? Yes, it's very awesome. But if you thought that meant you could now buy songs from iTunes and then torrent them to help your ratio at Senor Sleazy's Pirate Palace, you might want to hold off.
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no drm
Just a quick note for those of you who are looking forward to the
EMI DRM-Free iTunes tracks rumored to be launching this week. Apple's just updated iTunes to version 7.2, and added
iTunes Plus support. iTunes Plus is the new higher quality, DRM-free music store that sells at $1.29 per track we've been talking about since April.
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