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Thursday, May 31, 2007

I-Tunes Goes DRM Free...kind of

Bestill my beating heart.

I-tunes sees the error of their ways. Kind of. It isn't the entire I-Tunes library; just EMI at the moment, but from what I hear, EMI is not doing so well, and this could be their last-ditch effort to save their sinking ship. I hope it works for them.

While the DRM-Free tracks (.m4a) are encoded at 256-bit instead of 128, they list at $1.29 each instead of the $.99 for the DRM-infected (.m4p) tracks. Strange, it should be the other way around, I mean, it took a lot of engineering and tech to infect those files with DRM!

Also, keep in mind that the .m4a files have your account name embedded in them, so don't be too quick to drop them on bittorrent. This really is just a different type of DRM, but at least it allows the user to playback their music on any device or player, and make unlimited copies (for themselves, natch...)

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-CZ

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