CNET: Could Apple Screw Its iTunes Customers Too? (Hint: Of course.)
CNET News asks a good question that we can’t possibly imagine happening, but in the wake of the MSN Music and Yahoo Music disasters, it’s still worth considering: what if Apple decided to stop issuing DRM keys?
What that means, in English, is that let’s say you bought music from the iTunes Store. All of it—with the exception of music released by EMI, along with some small independent labels—is copy protected. So if you want to listen to it on a cell phone that’s not an iPhone, for example, you can’t—even though you can walk into a CD store, buy the same CD, import it, and then listen to the same music anywhere you want.
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