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Luca
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Minnesota
 
2009-01-06, 13:34

Starting in April, iTunes will sell songs for either $0.69, $0.99, or $1.29, depending on the music label.

They're also letting you upgrade all your purchased songs to iTunes Plus, and by the end of the quarter, all of the music on the iTMS will be DRM-free.

Both are excellent moves. The first one should let you pick up older songs for a more reasonable price while keeping the labels happy by letting them charge more for new releases. It also encourages competition among the labels. Let the kids get their latest Britney Spears CDs... they'll have to pay for them, which means I won't have to pay so much if I come across a Creedence song that I don't have yet.

As for DRM-free, Apple jumped on this not a moment too soon. iTunes would eventually fade into obscurity if they didn't switch to DRM-free music.
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