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[Nick Sabalausky]

"Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:49:33 -0400, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:
>
>> "Walter Bright" <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message
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>>> On 6/20/2011 12:13 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>>> I've been guessing that will only happen when DRM starts going away. 
>>>> Than
>>>> again, most consumers are complete morons...(The "dancing pigs" theory
>>>> and
>>>> all that...)
>>>
>>> Notice that DRM has faded away on downloadable music.
>>
>> Has it? I really haven't been paying attention to (legally) downloadable
>> music since when I did look at it, it was all either heavily DRMed or 
>> MP3. I
>> know the iTunes store started offering DRM-less stuff, but they were
>> charging extra for it, so I wasn't interested (especially since I could 
>> rip
>> the DRM out myself).
>
> iTunes (at least the music part of it) is DRM free.  You can no longer
> download DRM'd songs from apple (and you can re-download DRM-free versions
> of any songs you purchased before they made this change for free).
>
> Yes, they are charging more for some songs, and less for others.  But as
> far as I know, there is no fee for removing DRM.  The increase in price
> was a compromise to get the artists to agree to remove DRM from all the
> songs.  They are also charging less in some cases (but probably only on
> songs nobody wants :).  The increase is not exorbitant.  From what I
> remember it was 1.29 instead of .99 per song.  I don't know the exact
> details, I haven't bought many songs from iTunes, my current ripped tracks
> are usually good enough :)
>

Interesting. Yea, I guess my info on that is out of date then. Last I heard 
they had just started adding the option (to some songs) of paying $0.30 
extra to get a DRM-less lossless version. Glad to hear that turned out to 
just be a stepping stone.