The Price Of Going DRM-Free: Apple’s Hidden $1.8 Billion Music Tax

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Nearly two years ago, Steve Jobs published an open letter to the music industry calling for the death of DRM (digital rights management). He convinced EMI to ditch DRM back in April, 2007, but the three other major music labels held out. Until today. Now all the songs on iTunes are DRM-free, or soon will be. And, with that, the DRM era of digital music finally can be put to rest. (Amazon’s MP3 store has been selling DRM-free tracks from all the major labels for a year now already). The labe

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Apple Home Server Will Share Music, Movies and Photos Over the Internet [Rumor]

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We love HP’s new Time Machine-compatible MediaSmart Home Server. 9to5Mac reports that Apple is working on something similar, but it’ll be tied into MobileMe and will share music, movies and more over the web. Here’s the full list of features 9to5Mac has heard will make it to Apple’s SpaceTime Thing: • The device will tie in MobileMe with an Apple built-in Dynamic DNS system. For instance, if your MobileMe account was “9to5mac”, your domain name would be “9to5mac.me.com”. This is how you’d re

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The Tap Tap Revenge application on iPhone

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Test your rhythmic skills with the amazing Tap Tap Revenge game on your iPhone. This awesome application has been awarded as the top iPhone game of 2008, by Apple. Tap Tap Revenge is a music game similar to the popular games of Guitar Hero or Dance Dance Revolution. This iPhone music game has gained more than 3million downloads.

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$99 iPhone? Don’t hold your breath (and why ‘Apple = premium’ isn’t the answer)

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$99 iPhone? Don’t hold your breath (and why ‘Apple = premium’ isn’t the answer) Posted by Andrew Nusca @ 7:56 am Categories: Apple, iPhone 3G, iPhone Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Digital Music, Branding, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca Just yesterday I caught a Tweet of Wired’s Brian X. Chen lamenting the $99 Apple iPhone rumor at Walmart: Is sick and tired of reading about the $99 Walmart iPhone rumor. It’s unsubstantiated BS from an

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Apple blocks rival music stores

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Apple is unfairly blocking rival software makers who want to sell music for iPods and the iPhone, according to would-be competitors.

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