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Apple is encouraging cartels.

• sachinag 17y ago
  Sure, but most cartels fall over time as the players find themselves having divergent priorities. And even now, I'm going to tie myself to Amazon's MP3 store. I just got a Pre Plus and I'm never, ever going to buy a song from iTunes again.
  • ugh 17y ago
    Why do you tie yourself to anything? There is no more DRM. No need for any tieing. Buy wherever it’s cheapest or where what you want is available. File formats are no problem, webOS plays both MP3 and AAC files.
    • sachinag 17y ago
      I thought the cheaper iTunes downloads are still FairPlay protected AACs and only the $1.29 downloads are DRM free.
      • JeremyBanks 17y ago
        They dropped the price of DRM-free tracks to be the same as DRMed tracks way back, and during the first quarter of last year they removed DRM from all of the songs in their library. Some music videos are still DRMed, but all songs are DRM-free 256 KBps AACs for 99 cents.
      • ugh 17y ago
        No. iTunes went DRM free nearly a year ago. You can’t buy any music with DRM from iTunes even if you wanted to. (That doesn’t apply to some music videos and all other video content as well as iPhone apps.)