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Originally Posted by stewlewis
Legitimate fans buy the media because they want the quality. They want the package. They want the uncompressed surround sound HD movie. They won't use this service. They'll use the free ones for background music.
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So they won't use this service which will allow them to do whatever they like with the music forever and get as much of it as they wan't - but will use iTunes will allows someome to play it on a PC or an iPod and nothing else (barring the more expensive DRM free tracks) and will cost more to get the same amount of music
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Middle of the road music listeners and film viewers may use this service, they don't care about 128k background music quality or they have their DVD player hooked up to the biggest plasma they could afford via scart or composite. The aren't the most Tech Savvy and they probably bought and IPod without considering sound quality.
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As the
BBC points out though, a parent could subscribe to the service on behalf on the family, but the kids could then use it to download what they want onto their phones, MP3 players, iPods etc.
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The collectors, internet graffiti writers never gave a damn about legalities anyway and still won't. One or 2 may use this service to grab a massive collection fast, but they'll just share it anyway via other means.
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And if they do, they will get the other end of this which is the stick. As has been noted it is very likely that the MP3s will have a traceable watermark to tie it back to original customer.
They then won't have to prove how you shared it, the fact it got shared in the first place will be enough.
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Originally Posted by nffc
Yes but you can remove it with a tag editor.
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The watermark doesn't have to be in the tag - it could be embedded in the audio itself - it's not difficult to do