[Jeff Campbell]

http://crave.cnet.co.uk/digitalmusi...49300555,00.htm

"Apple's iTunes Store is almost completely DRM-free, and will be entirely DRM-free from spring," Nate Lanxon reports for CNET. "This means files downloaded from iTunes work on heaps of devices that aren't from Apple."

Just make sure the music you are now able to share doesn't end up on a file-sharing network, because the DRM-free files contain your email address used when you purchased the music. Maybe this was a payoff to the RIAA, who knows, but it is the one warning in the article. The rest of the article is a pretty good summation of what iTunes Plus means to the average consumer. I love the fact they are doing this, will make my sharing of files (at home only among family of course!) so much easier.

[Jeff Campbell]

http://crave.cnet.co.uk/digitalmusi...49300555,00.htm

"Apple's iTunes Store is almost completely DRM-free, and will be entirely DRM-free from spring," Nate Lanxon reports for CNET. "This means files downloaded from iTunes work on heaps of devices that aren't from Apple."

Just make sure the music you are now able to share doesn't end up on a file-sharing network, because the DRM-free files contain your email address used when you purchased the music. Maybe this was a payoff to the RIAA, who knows, but it is the one warning in the article. The rest of the article is a pretty good summation of what iTunes Plus means to the average consumer. I love the fact they are doing this, will make my sharing of files (at home only among family of course!) so much easier.

[doogald]

iTunes Plus has actually been around for a while now, with EMI and some indies, and the inclusion of the user name and account in the iTunes+ AAC/.m4a files (which are MP4 files, of course) existed from the beginning. I suppose that it's useful to know, but you really shouldn't be sharing files anyway.

[Jeff Campbell]

Originally Posted by doogald

iTunes Plus has actually been around for a while now, with EMI and some indies, and the inclusion of the user name and account in the iTunes+ AAC/.m4a files (which are MP4 files, of course) existed from the beginning. I suppose that it's useful to know, but you really shouldn't be sharing files anyway.

It's interesting when these tidbits are discovered, I didn't realize it had been happening all along though!

[doogald]

See this from May, 2007.