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Apparently, this is U.S.-only: http://twitter.com/#!/adrianweckler/status/77813858793832448
This is a treasure trove of marketing information. Apple will know your entire library and what you are listening to and when. Not exactly a privacy concern, but its something they can potentially make money off of somehow.
I'm not sure how people are surprised by this. If you already have the track on your hard drive and now you have to PAY to listen to it then Apple isn't really giving you anything you didn't already have (convenience, obviously). It's a nice service, but realize that they have already lost the sale.
I, for one, will pay the $25 amnesty fee after being a pirate for fifteen years.
What makes you think you are getting amnesty?
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I'm guessing that they're going to use an audio hash to look at the file and determine what song it is. It's probably more reliable than using ID3 tags which might get mixed up (especially around remixes, live versions, or just generally missing information). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_function#Finding_similar_r...
If the audio hash & protocol gets reverse-engineered, though, it'll make filesharing very quick--- instead of having to trade mp3s, you can just email your friend a list of hashes.
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If the audio hash & protocol gets reverse-engineered, though, it'll make filesharing very quick--- instead of having to trade mp3s, you can just email your friend a list of hashes.
I'm not sure how that would work, for the hash to be the same you would need the original song right? If they use sha1 or something like that how are you going to go from hash to song?
iTunes 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 just sounds surreal. So instead of buying music, you can now "pirate" it, then allow iTunes Match to "legitimize it" for you. Bingo, free "legitimate" music (I assume with artwork/etc included).
I 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.
I'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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Please provide double-blind test results showing you can distinguish between FLAC and an iTunes Store copy.
There are other reasons for using lossless audio files, such as archiving, and avoiding degradation through re-encoding.