TDPL is an Amazon Kindle bestseller

[Steven Schveighoffer]

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
> news:ito7i8$1tb7$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> 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 :)

-Steve