iTunes DRM Music era ends tomorrow

Cleve Nettles
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January 05, 2009
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As we've been saying over and over (and over) again, Apple is set to end the era of DRM music.  We've been hearing it will be at Macworld but we're now getting confirmation both from our sources and from CNet that it is going to happen.  This is turning out to be one heckuva Macworld keynote.  Even without Stevo, it looks like Apple wants to go out with a bang.

Comments (6)

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | January 05, 2009 - 8:07pm

the best part will be if everything is encoded at 256

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | January 06, 2009 - 7:24pm

BOOM!
256 bit encoding

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | January 05, 2009 - 10:11pm

If true then I'll probably start to buy from iTunes rather than Amazon.

talkingfuture (not verified) | January 06, 2009 - 12:08am

This will be great but what about our old libraries. It would be nice to get free upgrades. Got a feeling it won't happen though.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | January 06, 2009 - 6:48am

quote:
"This will be great but what about our old libraries. It would be nice to get free upgrades. Got a feeling it won't happen though."

I see two possibles solutions to this --if it ever comes--:

1) to replace them in a timely manner, like 10% each week/month. No server farm could ever support 300billions songs download over a weekend.
2) to release iTunes 8.1... that frees your purchased songs in your computers. It is easier to cop with millions of iTunes' software updates,

On the other hand, I'm sure that someone would ask also for a return-of-my-money when some purchased songs' price go down,

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | January 06, 2009 - 8:08am

I never liked iTunes on any platform. Good to see Apple catching up on DRM.