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Originally Posted by crimsonsky
I'm not sure I understand why you even have to pay an upgrade fee. I mean you ALREADY own the music. (Well, at least have rights to it - not sure how music ownership plays out with DRM).
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You don't. Keep it DRM'ed.
Putting my "Apple, Inc. Thought Predictor Hat" on, I think it's because:
A. The record labels don't want to give you another version of the track for free (they are scumbags, remember).
B. You are getting more functionality and better quality than you originally paid for.
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Originally Posted by ucfgrad93
While it is nice that Apple is allowing us to upgrade, I don't like the manner in which they are doing it. It is an all-or-nothing proposition. I would do it if I could a few songs at a time instead of all at once. And like crimsonsky I don't really need to have DRM free songs as I only listen to them on Apple devices.
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I think that'll change, though. I think for now, they're pushing people to do it all, but eventually they'll just let you do it album by album (like they did with the original EMI changeover).
As for not needing the DRM removed, I definitely don't. I only did it because it makes making family movies and DVDs much easier and means I don't have to rebuy tracks on Amazon to get a good backing track for home movies and such.
Silly reason? Maybe, but that was the only time the Apple DRM got in my way.
FYI: I still have about 487 songs that are still DRM'ed after upgrading over 500 of them yesterday.