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Re:Apple kills off DRM for whole iTunes music catalog by tptacek on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @02:04PM (#422275)
The DRM-free portion of the iTunes library cost extra money, and most tracks didn't have that option.

My uneducated guess is that the 1.69 pricing tier is a trade for stripping DRM off the backcatalogue.

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Re:Apple kills off DRM for whole iTunes music catalog by boucher on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @02:10PM (#422288)
DRM free tracks have not cost money for the last year.
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Re:Apple kills off DRM for whole iTunes music catalog by tptacek on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @02:12PM (#422291)
I-did-not-know-that. (Stop upvoting me for being an idiot!)
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