ITunes 7 DRM Already Cracked
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The latest version of Hymn can already remove DRM protection from songs purchased from the iTunes 7 store to enable playback on non-iPod players.  In Listening Post.
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Some Macworld Online readers have experienced problems using the UK iTunes Music Store in recent days. Letters received by Macworld confirm multiple instances in which users trying to access
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NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO  - Apple Inc.   Chief Executive Steve Jobs on Tuesday called on the four major  record companies to start selling songs online without copy  protection software known as digital rights management (DRM).
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Pirated versions of U2's new album "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" have emerged on Internet file-sharing networks two weeks before it goes on sale, throwing into question its official release date.
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Pirated versions of U2's new album "How  to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" have emerged on Internet  file-sharing networks two weeks before it goes on sale,  throwing into question its official release date.
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But look to lawsuit stick rather than iTunes carrot for the cause
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Quality DRM-free tunes sell well, says 7digital, which plans to drop copy-protection this year.
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Buffer overflow risk neutered In all the hoopla surrounding Apple's announcement of its revamped line of iPods on Wednesday, many users might have missed the company's update to iTunes, which includes a fix for a serious security flaw.â¦
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Apple made good on its promise to offer DRM-free tracks on Wednesday, launching iTunes Plus with AAC tracks from label EMI.
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Apple today launched iTunes Plus. The new option for iTunes customers features DRM-free music tracks that offer â for just $1.29 per song â high-quality 256 kbps AAC encoding for audio quality indistinguishable from the original recordings. iTunes Plus debuts with singles and albums from EMIâs digital catalog of outstanding recordings from artists such as Coldplay, The Rolling Stones, Norah Jones, Frank Sinatra, Joss Stone, Pink Floyd, John Coltrane, and Paul McCartney, a dozen of whose classic albums are now available on iTunes for the first time.
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Hoping to one-up Apple with its recent move away from digital rights management, high-quality music site MusicGiants began offering DRM-free music recently with the release of Paul McCartney's newest album, Memory Almost Full.
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Or dearer. Or disappear? So last year's " Future of Musicâ¢", the DRM-encumbered digital downloads model pioneered by Apple, has stalled. What now?â¦
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CHAMONIX, France  - A start-up co-founded by famed  Norwegian hacker "DVD Jon" is on Tuesday introducing a service  that enables users to copy and use copy-protected Apple  Inc iTunes songs on many popular non-Apple devices.
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InfoWorld - Apple&#160;has released a small repair tool that solves one compatibility issue between its jukebox software iTunes and Microsoft&#39;s&#160;new operating system Windows Vista, but says PC users are better off waiting for the next version of iTunes before upgrading to Vista.
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So, you have five hundred tapes and albums of the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and the like, and want then on your computer? Well, you could spend hundreds of dollars replacing music you already paid for once with CDs. Or, instead of paying twenty bucks per album, you could spend twenty cents per album to convert your tapes and vinyl to CD and rip those. Read more for how.    Also, the instructions below will allow you to defeat any copy protection. Period. Just substitute "cheap CD walkman" for "stereo." Caution- doing this in the United Statesor other parts of the world may be a felony. Those in less corrupt, more civilized parts of the world need not fear.    Or alternately, you can make CDs of your own band.
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Apple has announced that it will drop prices on its DRM-free AAC downloads to $0.99, the same price as all other single-song downloads. Amazon responded by giving its affiliates a 20% cut of all sales.
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Top executives will be the first to use Microsoft DRM technology when Mathias Thurman rolls it out. So what could go wrong? Best not to find out.