Sweden store's acting weird. Yesterday the Upgrade service showed an album and a couple of songs available for upgrade (Röyksopp among others, ironically shown shown as a Plus download further down the Plus page...) and when I chose to upgrade I got the error message about the store not currently being available. Probably being hammered I thought and opted to try again later. When I tried again I got the same error message as the guy from UK above about how the content had "moved" or some such thing.
Now the Upgrade things shows my library as already upgraded/up to date... Ok, ok so it's only been out a day, but since I acutally saw my albums available in the upgrade option just to disappear after I tried to upgrade makes me paranoid. Hope it'll go away as the traffic goes down but from previous experiences it usually comes down to alot of e-mailing to the support staff... \
The Inquirer has an article up asserting that all iTunes plus tracks have a large amount of user info imbedded in the track, including itunes account info.
Has anybody had a look at one of these files to confirm this? Seems like a dodgy assertion to me, but I just read it five minutes ago, so I really know nothing.
Edit: Looks like histrionics. Your username & email has been in ITMS purchases since the beginning. Not sure if there's a way to strip it, or alter it, but I'd imagine so.
The Inquirer has an article up asserting that all iTunes plus tracks have a large amount of user info imbedded in the track, including itunes account info.
Has anybody had a look at one of these files to confirm this? Seems like a dodgy assertion to me, but I just read it five minutes ago, so I really know nothing.
Edit: Looks like histrionics. Your username & email has been in ITMS purchases since the beginning. Not sure if there's a way to strip it, or alter it, but I'd imagine so.
It is at least somewhat true, though I expected the Inquirer to blow it out of proportion because that's what they do. On this week's sample, my user name and email is in the file. If you reencode it, it's gone. I'm sure there will be some stripper that removes this information without requiring a re-encode.
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Who is asking for price reductions? I would guess the 62 millions still using services like Limwire to download.
So you think that thieves should have their desires taken into account?
Now the Upgrade things shows my library as already upgraded/up to date... Ok, ok so it's only been out a day, but since I acutally saw my albums available in the upgrade option just to disappear after I tried to upgrade makes me paranoid. Hope it'll go away as the traffic goes down but from previous experiences it usually comes down to alot of e-mailing to the support staff...
My point is DRM free music should not be sold at a premium price.
Unfortunately, that's the price of getting the major labels on board, and they have 70% of all music in their catalogs.
They want variable pricing, and Apple's willing to give it to them, if they're willing to go DRM-free in return. Real world, real compromises.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39957
Has anybody had a look at one of these files to confirm this? Seems like a dodgy assertion to me, but I just read it five minutes ago, so I really know nothing.
Edit: Looks like histrionics. Your username & email has been in ITMS purchases since the beginning. Not sure if there's a way to strip it, or alter it, but I'd imagine so.
The Inquirer has an article up asserting that all iTunes plus tracks have a large amount of user info imbedded in the track, including itunes account info.
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39957
Has anybody had a look at one of these files to confirm this? Seems like a dodgy assertion to me, but I just read it five minutes ago, so I really know nothing.
Edit: Looks like histrionics. Your username & email has been in ITMS purchases since the beginning. Not sure if there's a way to strip it, or alter it, but I'd imagine so.
It is at least somewhat true, though I expected the Inquirer to blow it out of proportion because that's what they do. On this week's sample, my user name and email is in the file. If you reencode it, it's gone. I'm sure there will be some stripper that removes this information without requiring a re-encode.
just burn the songs to a rewritable cd-rom as aiff-audio cd
and import them again, and gone is the DRM
Aart