The deception of “buying” digital movies

Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by terinjokes on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @07:28AM (#33093990)

The ability to upgrade was only available for songs purchaseable as DRM-free on iTunes. I still have tracks in my library with the DRM because the distributor went out of business, making it impossible to upgrade.

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Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by mattl on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @07:30AM (#33094007)

Oh wow. Which tracks?

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Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by terinjokes on Thursday October 06, 2022 @07:13AM (#33106815)

On Linux nowadays, but last time I was on macOS with iTunes I has an album of Australian folk rock that still had DRM, were still an old bitrate, and not upgradeable to "Plus" (yes, the thing from 2007) or DRM-free.

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Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by mattl on Thursday October 06, 2022 @07:34AM (#33106941)

IIRC, Plus was DRM-free.

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Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by terinjokes on Thursday October 06, 2022 @07:54AM (#33107057)

Yeah, was so long ago I couldn't remember if they were separate or not.

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Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by mattl on Thursday October 06, 2022 @08:09AM (#33107192)

I think most were but also as I mentioned elsewhere on this page, Japan and possibly other countries didn’t go DRM-free for some time so possibly they had iTunes Plus but with DRM.

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