Re: [ARSCLIST] DRM (was CD Longevity)

[Eric Jacobs <ericj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Don't forget that with iTunes you also get DRM.  You can always resell or
trade a
used pre-packaged CD, or play your pre-packaged CD in any CD playing device
you
please.  Try reselling your iTunes songs to someone else, or playing them on
a
non-Apple player...

Many iTunes users don't realize that they are not buying songs, but they are
in
fact only buying the non-transferable right to play the song in limited
fashion.

Eric Jacobs
The Audio Archive
tel: 408.221.2128
fax: 408.549.9867
mailto:EricJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


At 11:15 AM 1/21/2006, Tom Fine wrote:
> My objection is paying the same price for downloaded WAV-quality files as
a whole
> packaged CD, which is what the current business model for that service
entails. With iTunes, you pay
> a little bit less than whole-CD prices (except of course when the CD is on
sale and you've bought
> enough to get free shipping). But with iTunes, you get vastly inferior
audio quality.