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> Try playing your iTunes purchase on a non-Apple product and you're SOL What are you talking about? Did iTunes add back DRM? Around 2009 or so Apple made all

> Try playing your iTunes purchase on a non-Apple product and you're SOL What are you talking about? Did iTunes add back DRM? Around 2009 or so Apple made all of iTunes DRM-free and were, I believe, the first major online music store to do so. It was a huge deal; Apple published an open letter from Jobs on their home page and everything. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/companies/07apple.html?mcubz=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/companies/07app... "iTunes Plus refers to songs and some music videos* in high-quality AAC format that don't have Digital Rights Management (DRM). All songs now for sale in the iTunes Store are iTunes Plus." https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201616 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201616 and, as of 2014, you could kill DRM on DRM-ed iTunes purchases made before 2009 https://www.wired.com/2014/03/kill-itunes-drm/ https://www.wired.com/2014/03/kill-itunes-drm/

criddell 9y ago
Movies are still generally protected with DRM. Do you know if you can play iTunes movies with a third party player (like VLC).
- agentdrtran 9y ago
  Who sells DRM free movies?
  - criddell 9y ago
    gog.com Plus, not all DRM schemes are equal. One that is exclusive to Apple is worse (IMHO) than one that isn't. For example, I can go to a store and buy a DVD or BluRay disk that has DRM yet I am very sure that I can play it on every player I own.
    - ender341341 9y ago
      As big of a fan of gog as I am and as much as I dislike itunes I think it's pretty disingenuous to compare their movie store to itunes. They have 56 movies on their store and I don't think any of them could be considered mainstream.
      - criddell 9y ago
        Oh I agree with you. I was originally responding to the person that said the iTunes store doesn't sell DRM'd stuff. The movies definitely are but I don't know if the DRM restricts the movie to being played on an Apple device or if it uses some non-Apple DRM making it playable elsewhere.

criddell 9y ago

Movies are still generally protected with DRM. Do you know if you can play iTunes movies with a third party player (like VLC).

agentdrtran 9y ago
Who sells DRM free movies?
- criddell 9y ago
  gog.com Plus, not all DRM schemes are equal. One that is exclusive to Apple is worse (IMHO) than one that isn't. For example, I can go to a store and buy a DVD or BluRay disk that has DRM yet I am very sure that I can play it on every player I own.
  - ender341341 9y ago
    As big of a fan of gog as I am and as much as I dislike itunes I think it's pretty disingenuous to compare their movie store to itunes. They have 56 movies on their store and I don't think any of them could be considered mainstream.
    - criddell 9y ago
      Oh I agree with you. I was originally responding to the person that said the iTunes store doesn't sell DRM'd stuff. The movies definitely are but I don't know if the DRM restricts the movie to being played on an Apple device or if it uses some non-Apple DRM making it playable elsewhere.