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		noisebleed on Jan 6, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple kills off DRM for whole iTunes music catalog Based on how FairPlay works, and how quickly the conversion happens, I think itunes probably just gets permission from Apple's servers to permanently decrypt the files: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairPlay#How_it_works

unalone on Jan 6, 2009 [–]

But aren't they also improving the sound quality to 256 whatchamacallits? I thought that was another aspect of iTunes plus.

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