One More Thing: ‘iTunes Match’ Will Upgrade Your Ripped Music For $24.99 A Year
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#2I'm curious whether this $24.99/yr revenue is shared with the labels who own the "pirated" music as part of the deal.
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#3iTunes Match premise: Once a pirate, not always a pirate. Pirates are willing to pay $25 / yr for legit 256 kbps AAC tracks of stuff they already have? And you must keep paying $25/yr in perpetuity for access to these tracks?
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#4iTunes Match premise: Once a pirate, not always a pirate. Pirates are willing to pay $25 / yr for legit 256 kbps AAC tracks of stuff they already have? And you must keep paying $25/yr in perpetuity for access to these tracks?
Access to the tracks on the cloud server. It's not like they're being deleted from your hard drive.
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#5Ah.. I didn't understand it this way before. I'm not sure how I'm justifying this to myself, as I have never bought an itunes album, haven't bought a physical album since 2004, and don't listen to music on my ipod, but I really do like this. It should cost £15.29, I'm going to expect £20 as a low estimate.
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#6If it's DRM free, how will the yearly subscription work? It's not like the tracks can expire.
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#7I'm curious whether this $24.99/yr revenue is shared with the labels who own the "pirated" music as part of the deal.
I would definitely think it would be shared, I highly doubt the labels would agree to it otherwise.
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#8I can't believe the fit the Music industry is throwing about Google Music and Amazon CloudDrive but they still made this deal with Apple.
Props to Apple. Shows they've got the muscle to get what they want.
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#9What I am curious about is if there would be anything stopping someone from paying the $25 once to convert all of their previously pirated tracks to "legit" 256 kbps AAC tracks...this seems strange to me.
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#10iTunes Match premise: Once a pirate, not always a pirate. Pirates are willing to pay $25 / yr for legit 256 kbps AAC tracks of stuff they already have? And you must keep paying $25/yr in perpetuity for access to these tracks?
This should actually be really attractive to pirates. You know all those albums you downloaded, but could only find in 128 kbps? Well, spend $25, and all those can now be 256 kbps. I absolutely loathe iTunes, and that's attractive enough to me that I'm considering reinstalling it.