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Fuzzy Logic Do the new DRM-free tracks have a worm in the Apple?
Fuzzy Logic Do the new DRM-free tracks have a worm in the Apple? | Do the new DRM-free tracks have a worm in the Apple? |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Saturday, 02 June 2007 | |
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Following this discovery, the EFF said additional information had been found in iTunes files, possibly amounting to an additional ‘digital watermark’, allowing songs uploaded from iTunes to be easily identified. Unfortunately, hackers are already working on ways to strip this information from iTunes’s DRM-free EMI songs, as well as ‘spoof’ the information to make it appear as through from someone else, as surprise and mild outrage spreads that Apple has included this information with DRM-free music downloads. Apple’s DRM-free tracks cost a US 30c premium over non-DRM tracks, and offer encoding at a higher quality bitrate – 256kbps instead of 128kbps, making songs played through an iPod to a large speaker system sound much better than the older 128kbps format. Clearly, users don’t like the idea they are being tracked while paying extra for DRM-free(dom), but the chances are that most iTunes buyers will be happy, law-abiding citizens who have no plans to uploaded iTunes music content. Those that do want to upload music from EMI purchased from iTunes have been given fair warning- if you upload songs to P2P networks, chances are EMI and Apple will find out and will come down on you like a ton of bricks. At least, until the hackers release a DRM-free clean up patch to the iTunes files. No-one yet knows how successful the DRM-free experiment will be, or if it will sell more songs to consumers, but so far, Apple’s sweet start has, at least for some, turned a little sour. {moscomment}
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