iTunes Drops DRM Adds Variable Pricing
As expected and talked about previously, Apple’s iTunes has dropped the dreaded Digital Rights Managment (DRM) and added variable pricing to the iTunes store. There are now a range of prices ranging from $.69 a song up to $1.29. Of course the $1.29 price tag is for songs deemed hot and in demand, while the $.69 are for those deemed, well, not so hot and not so in demand. Of course there are still a slew of songs available for the familiar $.99. The New York Times Bits Blog has a good run down on how the pricing structure works.
All of the songs have been stripped of Apple’s FairPlay DRM and are now encoded in ACC format at a higher bit rate. The good news is that you’ll be able to swap songs around on multiple devices.
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