“Apple’s iTunes Store is almost completely DRM-free, and will be entirely DRM-free from spring,” Nate Lanxon reports for CNET. “This means files downloaded from iTunes work on heaps of devices that aren’t from Apple. What better way to celebrate the final bullet to the living corpse of copy protection than by reading everything you need to know about iTunes Plus?”
Lanxon covers the following:
• Be warned: your account information is stored in every file
• iTunes Plus files aren’t MP3s: iTunes uses a format called AAC, which is a more modern alternative to MP3
• Players that support iTunes Plus
• Upgrading your library to iTunes Plus
Lanxon reports, “Eighty per cent of music in the iTunes catalogue is DRM-free already, and you’ll probably find that very little of what you search for remains in the old DRMed format. At the time of writing, 90 out of the top 100 songs on iTunes are in iTunes Plus format.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Bill in Sarasota" for the heads up.]
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