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Originally posted by Sever:
With iTunes, isn't your legally purchased music collection totally useless in a few years when they change the file format?
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It is DRM'd to the max, so in theory your music could be made obselete in the future - you need to read the license when you buy the song. Your songs would only become inaccesible if Apple stopped supporting the format they distribute now - a change wouldn't necessarily make that happen (although in ten or twenty years time of course...)
It does seem that changes can apply retrospectively - when Apple reduced the number of different computers you could play a song on, it was applied to songs already downloaded under the previous terms and conditions.
Read those user licenses like a hawk to see what you're actually getting and try and avoid vendor lock-in wherever possible.
05-28-2006, 07:22 AM
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