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There's more to the story with iTunes and DRM-free music, and now we're hearing that if you choose to pay the fee to strip DRM on your music you have no choice but to upgrade your entire collection. Rather than letting people select certain songs or even albums, iTunes will only give you the option of paying the fee for your entire collection or using it as is. Given that a library of 1000 would cost around $300, I'm betting that most people will give that option a pass.
It seems strange Apple would not give users the choice to migrate certain portions of their library over to a DRM-free format. What logic is there in such a decision?
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You could easily go the other route and convert your iTunes collection for free. I also read that Apple is watermarking the music files you download from ITunes with your email address. I guess it's there way of stopping people from sharing the DRM free music. Nice to know that Apple has your privacy at heart.
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i think its just another way for apple to squeeze every last penny out of the consumer. but what do i know?
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Yes, Apple watermarks the music files you download from iTunes with your account information (including email address), but it's been like this since iTunes Plus launched [url=http://www.techspot.com/news/25513-privacy-concerns-ove
-drmfree-itunes-tracks.html]in 2007[/url], so there's nothing new here. In theory it shouldn't be much of an issue either, since the main point of DRM-free tracks is that you can play them on any device, as opposed to sharing them on peer to peer networks
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"It seems strange Apple would not give users the choice to migrate certain portions of their library over to a DRM-free format."Actually, it doesn't surprise me so much. Apple can be just as imperious and rotten to its customers as M$, when it has the chance.
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never under stud what possesses people to use itunes
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