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EMI to drop DRM from iTunes.

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Mikerman:
From what I have read, most of the above is correct.  Note that customers will have the option of U.S.$.99 songs at iTunes (from EMI) at the lower recording rate and still with digitial rights management, and U.S.$1.29 at the higher rip rate without digital rights management.  Customers also may "re-purchase" their music for U.S.$.30 at the higher rate.  

Full albums will be at the same, current cost, and without digital rights management.

Note that this only applies as to EMI songs right now (starting in May).  

JonathanHull:
Sorry for the necro but I thought I would update everyone.

Today iTunes launched their DRM-Free store, dubbed "iTunes Plus".

Things are a bit slow going cause of high traffic, but it's up and running. For the most part it looks as expected. Songs are $0.30 more per track ($1.29), and the same per album it appears. Only a small portion of the music is available for now, but thats expected.

I went ahead and broke my personal boycott to test it and bought a full album (Megadeth). On the ones that successfully downloaded (because of high traffic) they seem to play fine. My ears aren't good enough to hear the quality increase, though. I dropped them on my Linux box to test the DRM. Works perfect!

Then the ultimate test: Will they work with Rockbox?

Loaded 3 tracks up on my H120. All 3 play perfect! Plays in real time with no skipping (however my settings are slimmer, no EQ, etc).

So thats great news. I can't test on other players or other configurations though, so your results may differ.

Raineer:
It came out hours later (I think I saw on Slashdot?) that the tracks you purchase, while being DRM free, are still encoded with your email and iTunes account name inside :/

I love the 255kbps thing, but still wish it was true music.

Llorean:
It is true music. Seriously, there's a tag in it identifying it as yours. There's also a tag in it that has the track name, and a tag in it that has the album name...

If you're not going to pirate it, that information does not hinder your use of it in ANY way (unlike DRM).

So, what exactly was the problem?

PaulJam:

--- Quote ---If you're not going to pirate it, that information does not hinder your use of it in ANY way (unlike DRM).

So, what exactly was the problem?
--- End quote ---
The problem could be if someone else pirates the music. For example if your player gets stolen or someone else has access to your files on the PC. I don't know how the copyright owners will react if they find music with your personal information in the filesharing networks.
That's why i personally have prejudices against personalised/watermarked files.

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