tomsi42;160177 Wrote: > I woudn't bet on it. The Microsoft Zune let's you send a music fil to > another user. The copy gets DRM'ed and can only be listened to three > times (in three days). No matter what the original file comes from! > Legal or not... And Apple is more DRM-happy than MS. > > Tom
That last point is highly debatable - especially in the light of the very example you give! And in any case that's not retrospective. Users know (or will have had the opportunity to find out) before they do it that that is what will happen. The same would not be true of retrospectively applying DRM to existing ALAC files. There are good reasons not to (the main one being "lawyers") and none that I can see that would outweigh them on the other side. I would bet against that, and I think my money would be pretty safe. I'd bet against the iTunes store selling DRM'ed ALAC as well. I think they're more likely to raise the bitrate on protected AAC, perhaps charging a premium for the better quality, if they do anything - although given the phenomenal success of crappy bitrates and lossy formats, why would they bother? -- geraint smith ------------------------------------------------------------------------ geraint smith's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=625 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30325 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
