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Regarding iTunes Music Store DRM

Regarding iTunes Music Store DRM

Posted Sep 7, 2007 11:06 UTC (Fri) by Cato (subscriber, #7643)
In reply to: Regarding iTunes Music Store DRM by dowdle
Parent article: Ruminations on software freedom

The loss of audio quality is enough to stop people doing this - if you wanted to convert from Apple's AAC format to the more standard and DRM-free MP3, you would end up going through two sets of audio compression, making the quality significantly worse.


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