Originally posted by Anim8r
Once again, people are not reading the real information.
Apple allows you to STREAM the songs to 3 machines.
You CAN burn as many CD's as you want/ The limit of 10 per playlist is to prevent mass duplication. Just trash the old playlist and create a new one.
AAC is a better codec, that's why the switch.
Taking any information from MSnbc with a heaping helping of salt is counter-productive.
There is no such thing as a "better" codec, there are codecs that are better suited for a specific task. One that may have better compression for voice may not sound as good in an environment of heavy beats and constaint background noise such as guitars and such.
This can be demonstrated with the differences in .gif and .jpg.
They both have been around for ages due to they are better in specific areas than others. gifs normaly have a smaller file size and less artifacting while jpgs are better at keeping true colors, while adding artifacts to images at the same time.
absolutely nothing prevents me from copying this AAC to a different computer (via burning AAC's to CD, swaping hard drives, network share, p2p clients, FTP, etc... ) and trying to play them on other machines. this completely circumvents your stream.
People can produce MP3 (or AAC for that matter) players that would be able to conveniently "forget" to check that it's a DRM managed file. ANY copy prevention can be cracked. I don't imagine this will be any different. Give me enough CPU time and I'll do it myself.
This prevents casual copying, but it will eventualy be compromised.
My main point is that AAC is a newer technology. People aren't as familiar with it and as a side effect of this DRM cracked AAC players are further down the line than a DRM cracked MP3 player.
