Apple dumps iTunes DRM
Listen to the music
Apple has come to an agreement with four major record labels to remove their digital rights management software (DRM) from their music.
Following increased competition from other online music providers, Apple has been facing some consumer pressure to remove DRM from iTunes. Previously, if you bought tracks from iTunes, you could not, say, burn them onto a CD for private listening, or easily transfer them to a friends iPod. But not anymore.
About 80% of iTunes' current library is offered DRM free, as of today. The rest of the songs will be DRM-free by the end of March.
New prices have been introduced as well: before, all songs were the same price; now there will be songs selling for $0.69 and $1.29. A fee will also be charged if you want to remove the DRM from your old tracks already downloaded.
Update: It will cost you 40¢ to strip the DRM from an iTunes song you already have. Music video stripping will cost 80¢, and albums will cost a whopping 30 percent of the album price to take out the DRM.
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I also don't really like that they're going to change the price of songs on a song-by-song basis. I bet that will end up causing the popularity of a song to control it's price. Or all the big music labels will push to increase their songs to the higher price, since so many labels have wanted iTunes to increase their prices for a while now.
Still, thats huge and great news.
Now if they'd just pass the manufacturing savings on to the artists, I'd buy from there all the time.
Fast forward to now, where I have roughly 2100 songs from iTunes. It is going to cost me $840 to strip off their worthless DRM. Thank you, Apple, for rewarding your frequent customers. Faggots.
At the very least there is the option, though, and future downloads won't have the DRM at all, which is good.
cuz...then you're like..dammit
i have a library full of songs bought from Itunes. now you have to pay to get rid of the DRM? whats the point of that?
Youshould probably e-mail them, stating the large amount of cash you'd have to spend to do that. For that much money, you could buy a cheap desktop or laptop computer >_>
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