DVDneXtCOPY iTurns Removes iTunes DRM with Virtual CD Burner

[Jon Pruente]

Stop.  Stop now, before your complete ignorance of what you speak
against continues to shine.  The DRM free music is a higher bitrate
than AAC protected music, so your claim of a loss of quality is
ignorant at best, and deliberately ignoring the facts at the worst.
The only time a possible loss of quality is the conversion of DRM
music when burning an audio CD of protected content, but the AAC music
is 128Kbps any way, so it's not much, if any, of a real loss.  Before
you make another single claim about what does and does not happen with
iTunes I highly suggest you go have a look for yourself.  Your
repeated spouting of false info in the face of direct links to the
source for easily found info is astonishing.

In the "Quick Links" section of the main iTunes page is an "iTunes
Plus" link that takes you to the main page for iTunes Plus where
everything shown is DRM free.  Apple charges .99 for iTunes Plus
songs, just like it does for iTunes DRM songs.  I just fired it up and
right next to the .99 price is a + icon showing that it is DRM free
music.  Hard to distinguish my ass.

I never said Apple wasn't to blame, but they are not as much to blame
as you seem to like.  You gain a point in my book by having a belief
you stand by, but you lose several by being so blinded by it that you
cannot see the wave of truth coming straight for you out of the sea of
web links shown to you.

Jon.

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Leo Mauler <webgiant at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Actions speak louder than words.  Currently they issue DRM music files which are cheaper than non-DRM music files, and their DRM files are indistinguishable from their non-DRM files.  And as Jon has been so quick to point out, there's a FREE TOOL to *legally* remove the DRM from their files.

> Apple can say what it likes in its press releases.  It is what it chooses to sell (and its choice to make you pay more for non-DRM, while claiming better quality and not delivering it) which tells the real story.

> iTunes Plus Music is indistinguishable from iTunes.  Typically when one pays more for an optimized version of a product, one expects better quality in the more expensive version than in the much cheaper version, yet Apple appears to be discouraging use of iTunes Plus by charging more for music files which aren't any better quality than the DRM music files and, as Jon has pointed out on numerous occasions, the Apple-brand DRM music files can have their DRM removed easily.