Apple going DRM-free, but punishing older DRM customers
Here's a couple of articles touting "objections" to the new Apple non-DRM policy:
1) Apple is CHARGING customers who previously purchased DRM-protected music and videos from their iTunes site to upgrade their songs to DRM-free versions. My understanding is it's 30 cents for a song, and 60 cents for a video. That sounds like it's punishing the "honest" customers who did the "right thing" when everyone else was pirating music, in my opinion. Here's the link to the MacWorld article (note the part about upgrading your music tracks):
2) Although the new tracks are DRM-free, according to this "PC Advisor" article, Apple embeds your NAME and EMAIL ADDRESS into each song you purchase. That way, if the song you purchased is spread somehow, you're busted! While that might not be objectionable on the surface, there's probably some privacy ramifications to this system. Here's the link to the PC Advisor article:
Here's a couple of articles touting "objections" to the new Apple non-DRM policy:
1) Apple is CHARGING customers who previously purchased DRM-protected music and videos from their iTunes site to upgrade their songs to DRM-free versions. My understanding is it's 30 cents for a song, and 60 cents for a video. That sounds like it's punishing the "honest" customers who did the "right thing" when everyone else was pirating music, in my opinion. Here's the link to the MacWorld article (note the part about upgrading your music tracks):
http://www.macworld.com/article/138000/drm_faq.html
2) Although the new tracks are DRM-free, according to this "PC Advisor" article, Apple embeds your NAME and EMAIL ADDRESS into each song you purchase. That way, if the song you purchased is spread somehow, you're busted! While that might not be objectionable on the surface, there's probably some privacy ramifications to this system. Here's the link to the PC Advisor article:
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=4&entryid=926
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