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Originally Posted by feidhlim1986
DRM is pointless on iTunes music, If you buy iTunes DRM song all you need to do is burn them to a CD (Audio CD mode) and then Rip them back using itunes and DRM is gone.
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That's not the point.
You can't have a subscription service without DRM. Subscription services operate on the principle that if you cancel your subscription, all your music stops playing. This can only be achieved with a DRM scheme.
Without DRM, there's nothing to stop you from signing up for a month, downloading a shit-ton of music, and then canceling your subscription.
If this happened, iTunes plus tracks would of course be unavailable to the subscription customers.
Jobs' stand against the record labels is the first legitimate ray of light in digital music distribution in years. If Apple did this, everything would be undone.