Hi Donna, If you'e browsing the iTunes store for music tracks now, everything is DRM-free. This change-over happened on April 1, 2009 (I know, unfortunate choice of date if you want to be taken seriously), and was received in exchange for allowing the record companies to charge at 3 price levels: 69 cents, 99 cents, and $1.29 instead of sticking to a single 99 cent price for each track. Their argument was that they could then release many older tracks at lower prices as well as charge more for new music tracks. Before the changeover date, DRM-free tracks were termed "iTunes Plus" tracks. If you purchased tracks that were not-DRM free before the April 1 date, but these tracks were still available for sale after the transition date, you could upgrade them to DRM-free status for 30 cents. (All prices quoted for the U.S. iTunes Store.)
See this January 2009 announcement from Apple about Changes Coming to the iTunes Store for details: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/01/06itunes.html Cheers, Esther Donna Goodin wrote: > > When browsing in the ITunes store, How can one tell whether a track is > ITunes Plus or not? I don't want to purchase anything with DRM. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
