Journal Pirogoeth's Journal: [POLL] DRM-Free music 8
So, EMI becomes the first major label to make the DRM-free jump. Personally, while I see it as a good thing from different angles (customer: music can be played on any software/player, reseller: Apple makes more money because people will come to them to buy DRM-free tunes, supplier: EMI makes more money from the higher per-song price, artists: still get screwed) I don't see it as jumping for joy news. I'm not much of an audiophile, so the higher quality would probably be lost on me, and I drank the Apple kool-ade years ago, so I'll be using iTunes/iPods forever so the presence of the DRM doesn't really impact me..
Question(s):
1: If you buy music through iTMS, will you spend the extra $$$ for the higher-quality DRM-free versions?
2: Will you spend the $$$ to take up the offer to "upgrade" any existing music you have previously downloaded?
3: How long will it be until major label #2 makes a similar announcement?
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I don't think I can hear any better than the 128AAC anyway, so I'm not that interested in the 256. I would like it if the DRM were just off, but no I don't think it's worth the extra money. I guess I'll continue to cut CDs and rip back to MP3 (I haven't had much time for the reverse engineering project to break the crypto directly.)
I could maybe see buying one or two of the more expensive ones, if I were feeling too lazy to cut a CD a
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QTFairUse [wikipedia.org]... I *used* to have AAC files with FairPlay.
Anything you rip from CD will be without FairPlay. Not that I do that, I rip to MP3. As for AAC files that have no FairPlay, you can convert to MP3 (transcode) with a right-click in iTunes.
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As for the questions in the JE:
1. Yes, I will.... Just to support it.
2. If I find out which iTunes tracks that I bought were by EMI, I'll upgrade them all. Thing is: it's not easy to find out. I still have the backups of my FairPlay enabled tracks, yes....
3. Good question.... I hope very fast.
I don't steal music, but I want to be able to easily transport music from one computer to another without having to get the seal of approval from Apple.
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Yes, Yes, Not Long (Score:2)