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iTunes Breaks 6 Billion, DRM is Dead

I suspect that the "over the air" ability will help accelerate iTunes sales a little bit. Especially when combined with Shazam.

For what it's worth, iTunes says I've purchased 730 items including 584 audio files; however, I've been stupidly fanatic about getting the free songs each week. After 4 years, that's 400+ right there.


Seeing as how I came into iTunes with a few hundred CDs (and eBay and used stores have usually been cheaper than iTunes), I've personally been more interested in ripping music from my CDs than buying new music directly from iTunes.

And since, for the last nearly 2 years, we all knew that iTunes was going to go DRM-free any day now, I've avoided buying any music there.


So, the combination of $.69 back catalogue songs, finally DRM-free music, and over the air purchases for iPhones means that there *might* be some pent up demand...I guess we're find out this quarter.

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