Apple kills off DRM for whole iTunes music catalog

Re:Apple kills off DRM for whole iTunes music catalog by tdavis on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @03:04PM (#422397)

Ah, I thought you were replying with regard to the question "Anyone care to guess how low online music will go?"

In the case of upgrading, I don't disagree. Sorry for the wrongful callout, it just drives me nuts when people have thousands of songs and listen to music all the time and say "it isn't worth paying for."

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Re:Apple kills off DRM for whole iTunes music catalog by tptacek on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @03:25PM (#422431)

Holy living fuck, I just did the math on how much that upgrade price means I spent on music over the last few years.

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Re:Apple kills off DRM for whole iTunes music catalog by smhinsey on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @10:20PM (#422919)

Tell me about it. Mine was $430 and I had a serious double take. On the up side, a decent chunk of my music was purchased with the gift cards you get from having an Apple Visa card.

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Re:Apple kills off DRM for whole iTunes music catalog by blasdel on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @04:01PM (#422495)

Seriously!

You saved some time by downloading from iTunes rather than via bittorrent. Was that time worth thousands of dollars?

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Re:Apple kills off DRM for whole iTunes music catalog by tptacek on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @04:08PM (#422506)

I also think it's wrong to take music without paying for it.

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Re:Apple kills off DRM for whole iTunes music catalog by blasdel on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @05:29PM (#422616)

s/take/copy/

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Re:Apple kills off DRM for whole iTunes music catalog by tptacek on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @05:44PM (#422634)

You see, I carefully didn't use the word "steal" to avoid the copyfight pedantry, but that wasn't enough for you. "Copying" commercial music that you didn't pay for is unethical, just like "copying" a typeface family, "copying" a website design, or "copying" and black-labeling a GPL'd software package.

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Re:Apple kills off DRM for whole iTunes music catalog by tdavis on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @04:58PM (#422584)

I know, right! I mean, if music weren't free to produce and distribute it'd be one thing, but since it is, why doesn't everybody use bittorrent?!?!

sigh

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Re:Apple kills off DRM for whole iTunes music catalog by GHFigs on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @06:05PM (#422661)

Those thousands of dollars went to pay for the time of the people who created the work that I paid for. Kind of like people pay me for my time.

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