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The iTunes Store, iTunes Music Store is an old software-based online digital media store operated by Apple Inc. iTunes Music Store opened April 28, 2003, with more 200,000 items to buy, was in April 2008, the number one provider of music United States.On Wednesday, February 24, the store served its discharge Song 10 billion, this milestone is reached in less than seven years of being online. iTunes accounts for 70% of worldwide sales of digital music online and make service the largest retailer of legal music. While most of the previously downloaded files including restrictions on their use, enforced by FairPlay, application Digital Rights Management Apple iTunes initiated a change in selling music without DRM in some countries, marketed as iTunes Plus. On January 6, 2009, Apple announced that the DRM was removed 80% of the music catalog in the United States. iTunes Plus has been made fully available April 7, 2009 in the United States, coinciding with the introduction of a pricing model at three levels.
Content
1 Characteristics and restrictions
1.1 Models Price
1.2 weekly specials
1.3 Availability
1.3.1 iTunes Store for iPhone OS
Customer 1.4
Catalog contents 2
Music 2.1
2.1.1 "Album Only" songs
2.1.2 sub-divisions
2.1.3 Song censorship
2.2 Podcasts
2.3 Audiobooks
Video 2.4
ITunes U 2.5
2.6 iPod games
App Store 2.7
2.8 iBookstore
3 Shares and the goals
3.1 Milestones
3.1.1 Music
3.1.2 Video
3.1.3 Applications
3.1.4 Fee market
4 Internationalization
5 File Format
6 Digital Rights Management
Movement Against DRM 6.1
July Promotions
8 Other platforms
9 technical details
10 Legal disputes
Apple Records 10.1
10.2 The Board of defiance consumption EULA Norway
10.2.1 Defense Competition for the EU
11 content conflicts
11.1 Universal Music Group
11.2 NBC Universal TV series
12 See also
13 Notes and References
14 References
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Features and restrictions
pricing model
Since the introduction of the iTunes Store, songs individual were all sold for the same price without a contract (unlike most online music stores existing at the time of introduction, which charged a monthly fee for access to its catalog). The music in the store Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) format, which is the successor to MPEG-4-specified in MP3 format. Songs DRM are encoded at 128 kbit / s. As the Macworld Expo in January 2009, Apple announced that all music available on iTunes without DRM and encoded in high quality of 256 kbps Previously, this model known as "iTunes Plus", was available only for the music of EMI and some independent labels. Preview thirty seconds in duration, are available for free, before purchasing a song. iTunes has the choice between full load previews before playing, or just the preview of streaming functionality has been removed for the version of iTunes 8.
feature films and television series are available for purchase. Movies tend to be less than a DVD of the movie, while TV episodes are about twice the cost of a song.
Finally, some games are available for some iPod models at different prices, but not as expensive as a feature film. The iTunes App Store now offers, which are applications that are used for various purposes (games, maps, movie listings, etc.) that are compatible with the iPod Touch and iPhone, although some applications are specifically for the iPhone. Some applications cost money (called "pay Apps") and some are free (called "Free Apps"). Developers can decide what price they want for the applications. When someone downloads application, 70 percent of the purchase is for the developer (s), and 30 percent goes to Apple.
Opening At MacWorld 2008, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced iTunes movie rentals. The films are available for rent on the iTunes Store the same day they are released on DVD. Are visible to 24 hours after users begin to see them. This feature is not yet available in all countries.
Weekly Specials
It is a week promotion, in which three songs can be downloaded for free registered users. Downloads are available for free on Tuesdays, and remain open until Tuesday next. Some artists choose to have select songs available for free. He was not available in all iTunes stores. Some TV shows have started the same iTunes technique to promote brand loyalty, while those who stay longer. In fact, the iTunes Store used to have a link to "Free TV" in its home page and the TV main page section that links to a complete list of TV shows for free, but disappeared (page kept online). Apple continues to sell TV episodes free, some channels like ABC and NBC, have their own pages of "first open season.
In general, there are three types of songs for free in the U.S. iTunes Store: the song that appears regularly finding free download (with songs from different genres) and Cancin Week (America one week free). More recently, iTunes has been offering Weekly music videos for free.
Availability
To purchase in the file store, you must pay with a iTunes gift card or a credit card with a billing address in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada (despite the gift cards can be used in implementing Store), Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom or the United States. Apple also offers other payment methods (such as Paypal), which differ from country to country. Residents of other countries can purchase a gift card from a dealer or download free podcasts and previews.
iTunes Store iPhone OS
The iTunes Store said the iPhone OS.
The release of the iPhone and iPod Touch has introduced the iTunes Music Store. This version of the iTunes Store allows owners of iPod Touch and iPhone to buy music and download podcasts directly to the portable music device. The origin of the user access to store must be connected to a Wi-Fi to enter the store, so original name: the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store. However, at Macworld 2009, Apple released an update software that is automatically authorized EDGE and 3G users to access all the features of the store for files smaller than 10MB. The 3.0 update adds the ability to download movies, TV shows, audiobooks, iTunes U, and ringtones on devices.
Customer Service
Apple offers support customers to the iTunes Store on the phone through AppleCare, Timothy Noah of Slate has also found an online customer service. Most applications are handled online customer service through a link on iTunes application problem reports.
The catalog contents
Music
Store began after Apple signed deals with five major record labels at the time, EMI, Universal, Warner, Sony Music Entertainment and BMG (the latter two more later merged to form Sony BMG). Music of over 2,000 independent labels have been added later, the first of The Orchard on 24 June 2003.
The store has more than 11 million songs, including songs from various artists. Not all artists are available on iTunes, including some popular as the Beatles and AC / DC.
The new songs are added to the iTunes catalog every day, while the iTunes Store is updated every Tuesday. Apple is also at the launch of a single "the Week" in English and Spanish at times, in general, a shock "discovery" on Tuesday, that are available free for a week.
download songs come with the song information (name, artist, album) already filled, if iTunes offers a free service provided by Gracenote make the songs were not purchased at the store, but they must be imported into iTunes. Songs that have an entry in the iTunes The Store are also equipped with the album art (the work has been included in the metadata). At the launch of iTunes 7, the artwork can be obtained from the songs not purchased in the store for free if the user has an iTunes Store account. Purchased songs do not come with lyrics already written in the application window iTunes provides for them or an acquisition of services in the missing letters. However, there are several third party applications to locate and automatically add the letter the user's music.
"Album Only" songs
Some songs are available at the store for "Album Only", ie song can be purchased by purchasing the album, while most of the songs can be downloaded separately from the album to which they belong. Most songs over 10 minutes are automatically tracks on the album alone. Soundtrack also often many clues single disc. Soundtracks are Tracks include many different labels, certificates to more complex. For example, Forrest Gump: The soundtrack features songs for Peacock Records, Argo Records Capitol Records, among many others. Greatest Hits Red Hot Chili Peppers have a song, "Higher Ground", which is not available for download on a per song.
Subdivisions
Upon entering the shop of American music, there are multiple sub-divided stores that you can go. These stores are found in the mineral in the music, recorded, replacement, playlists and downloads elebrity REE. In the mineral in the music, you can enter various shops such as Starbucks Entertainment and iTunes Essentials. iTunes Essentials combinations of music based on musical artists (Foundations of the artist), the gender or the history of music (Gender and History) or any other similarities (My Groove). Each grouping of music is essentially a list of pre-made playlists. The songs on the list are all listed in order of importance, starting with the most famous artist of the song. These lists usually contain 45 or 75 songs divided equally into three sections: basic principles (The best and biggest and most important songs), the next steps (usually composed of popular songs, just after the success) and Deep Cuts (underrated songs.) Sometimes Essentials particular artist, Deep Cuts is not a section. This usually depends on how many releases of the artist has done with years. At registration, you can enter in the music stores that have a single type. These genres are Alternative, Blues, kids music, Christian gospel / classical, comedy (including that rock and comedy stand-up comedy), country, dance, electronic, rap, jazz, Latin, pop, R & B / soul, reggae, rock, singerongwriter, band sound, voice, and the world. A total of 20 genera in the music store in the United States. re-order lists albums that you can pre-order the album before to come. elebrity lists contain lists of songs chosen and described by celebrities. Downloads rare earths are the songs that iTunes Store Users can subscribe for free.
On November 1, 2006, Apple has created a category for Latinos and Latino issues, America Tunes. Telemundo Mun2 and made some of its popular programs available for buy, becoming the first Hispanic television content in the store. Offers music, music videos, audiobooks, podcasts and television shows Spanish in a concentrated area. The brief descriptions reflect the content is Spanish, and several subcategories. Gibraltar Flamenco Metal band Breed 77, released an album An exclusive meeting called to coincide with the launch of Tunes Latino. It contains 11 songs, all the previous albums, but all sung in Spanish.
Song of censorship
iTunes has a policy of censorship of swear words in their lists of songs. The result was a failure Scunthorpe.
If the iTunes Store believes that words are hurtful, it will be marked "explicit" next to the title of the song. If a piece is marked "explicit" is not available for purchase if "restrict explicit content" is enabled in the preferences of parental control. Often, there will be a "clean" brand together the name of some songs, which means the words have been censored, and is available for purchase on all accounts. In general, if a song is labeled "clean" There is an explicit version also available.
Podcasts
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Main article: Podcast
The iTunes Store has more than 150,000 podcasts available to subscribe. Once the podcast you have subscribed, iTunes will automatically download new episodes of the collection of this person iTunes. They are available for free.
Audiobooks
The iTunes Store also includes over 20,000 audiobooks, encoded at 32 kbit / s (22050-24000 kHz, mono) and 64 kbit / s (22.050 kHz, stereo). Eighty seconds extracts available for each book. These books are provided by Audible.com. The same formats available if the user directly with Audible.com and chose the "iPod" format. The main difference is that it is not necessary to enroll in a subscription to get audiobooks as in the case of the signal. A small discount is provided for the purchase of audio books through iTunes Store, but Apple selectively through an "always on the member discount" if you have an Audible subscription. Audiobooks "category also includes radio and all programs audio only, with the exception of podcasts.
Video
In October 2005, Apple announced the latest iPod is capable of playing video files sold online through iTunes in the U.S. These videos including music videos and 2,000 episodes of popular television programs. Apple has an agreement with Disney to be the leading provider of television broadcasts. The first sample was available episodes of Lost and Desperate Housewives each episode is available the day after that originally aired television broadcasts. Several Pixar animated shorts are available.
The sale of videos in iTunes has generated considerable debate as to whether there was a paying audience for programming available for free on television. As MP3 Newswire has pointed out, users do not pay much for programs TV themselves. Instead, they are really paying for a service that offers the convenience of scanning to someone else without episodes are broadcast to them for their portable devices, each commercial-free episode, and a convenient place to select and download individual shows. With an updated version of QuickTime Pro, users can create their own videos for the iPod, including digitized versions of programs recorded on their VCR if you want to take the time and effort to reduce costs.
With launch of iTunes 8, many television programs such as Office and Heroes began offering its programming in high definition (HD).
Also programs launching HDTV, iTunes 8 has to rent movies through the iTunes Store. The movies game rental must begin within 30 days of purchase and must be completed within 24 hours after being released.
In March 2009, Apple announced that iTunes customers can buy and rent movies HD selected titles from their computers. Previously, HD movie rentals were available for purchase and playback on the Apple TV. movies high definition are sold at a price of $ 19.99, was presented with titles such as Quantum of Solace and Twilight.
iTunes U
iTunes U has been announced Cupertino, California, May 30, 2007. The service was created to manage distributing and controlling access to audio and video files and PDF education for students in a college or university and the entire Internet. Member institutions are given their own iTunes U site that uses Apple's iTunes Store infrastructure. Online service is free to download or download material. The content includes lectures, language lessons, lab demonstrations, sports events and visits to campus provided by two degrees and qualification accredited four year public or private colleges and universities in the United States, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, United Kingdom, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom.
ITunes U has an advantage over traditional tools of podcasting is that access to the content may be restricted due to infrastructure use iTunes to end. Authentication is handled by a university and a member University inviting the visitor information (such as account and password specific to that institution) and then pass the token site on iTunes U, which contains the level of access for visitors. An example would be a sort of podcast that can be accessed by students enrolled in the class.
iTunes U Discover a host material, including schools and universities. There are over 75,000 files available for download. Universities can be visited by section and university colleges and other institutions can be visited through the "Beyond Campus" section.
iTunes U is a bit like the podcasts that users can download each current or subscribe to stream to iTunes automatically download.
Since changes in iTunes U more sites may be difficult for users not familiar XML tools (Eg, XQuery), Apple has created the Automator Woolamaloo to assist users in publishing sites. Woolamaloo The Automator makes it easy for non programmers to use the iTunes U Web Services Using the tool workflow in Automator actions Woolamaloo Apple desktop not only can be set, but then can combined to meet all routine tasks iTunes U administration. The Automator Woolamaloo became popular for its ease.
IPod Games
Article: Games iPod
On September 12, 2006, the iTunes Store has begun offering additional games for purchase with the launch of iTunes 7, compatible with iPod or iPod classic with video playback. Launch titles include Bejeweled, Cubis, Mini Golf, Mahjong, Pac-Man, Tetris, Texas Hold 'Em Vortex and Zuma. Despite that downloaded from iTunes, games can be played in the application itself and can only be played on iPod classic or iPod nano.
App Store
Main article: App Store
With the launch of the iPhone 3G and iPhone OS 2.0 firmware for iPod touch and iPhone owners, the App Store for downloading applications through the iTunes software desktop or App Store on iPhone. As of October 27, 2009, more than 100,000 available third-party applications. Applications can be run on the iPhone or iPod Touch. Each application is also protected by iTunes FairPlay DRM. The developers of these applications receive 70 percent of revenue and free applications are distributed free of charge one for the developer.
iBookstore
Main article: iBookstore
As with the launch of the App Store on iPhone OS as an application independent, as in iTunes that section of the iTunes Store, the iBookstore is likely to be released on both platforms in the same way, with the desktop software used to store iBooks and synchronize with IPAD-commercial use only.
The market share and targets
The iTunes song sales
Since its launch, iTunes Store has given several important steps. During the first 18 hours, the store has sold more than 275,000 titles and over 1,000,000 of its first five days. In When released for Windows in October 2003, iTunes was downloaded over 1,000,000 times in the first three days, selling over one million titles in this period. On December 15, 2003 Apple announced that it had crossed 25 million songs sold.
In January 2004 at Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco Steve Jobs announced (Sellers, 2004) that an anonymous person had bought U.S. $ 29,500 worth of the music. On March 15, 2004, Apple announced that iTunes Music Store purchased and downloaded 50 million songs in the iTunes Music Store. They also said that customers bought 2.5 million songs per week, which corresponds to an annual rate projected to run 130 million songs year. The 50 millionth song "The Path of Thorns" by Sarah McLachlan.
On April 28, 2004, the iTunes Music Store marked its first anniversary with 70 million songs sold, clear predominance in the market for online music and pay a small profit. The store also offers hundreds of movie trailers and music videos to try to boost sales BO. At the conference, Steve Jobs reiterated that a subscription service is not in the interest of customers and reported that only 5 million 100 million promotional campaign have been redeemed song from Pepsi, which he attributed to technical problems in the distribution of Pepsi. According to a Apple press release issued August 10, 2004, the iTunes Music Store is first to have a catalog of more than one million songs. In addition, the iTunes Music Store at that time held a market share exceeding 70 percent of legal music downloads.
Milestones
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100 million songs sold: Summer 2004
(Kevin Britten of Hays, Kansas, bought the 100 millionth song, and twenty years received a call from Steve Jobs to congratulate him.)
125 million songs Sold: September 1, 2004
150 million songs sold: October 14, 2004
200 million of securities sold: December 16, 2004
(Ryan Alekman of Belchertown, Massachusetts, USA, has purchased the 200 millionth song, which was one of the titles of the digital receiver Play U2 The Complete U2.)
250 million songs sold: January 24, 2005
300 million songs sold: March 2, 2005
400 million songs sold: May 10, 2005
On July 5, 2005, Apple announced an account promotion back to half a billion songs sold.
500 million songs sold: July 18, 2005
(Amy Greer of Lafayette, Indiana, USA, bought the 500 millionth song, "Mississippi Girl" by Faith Hill.)
850 million songs sold: 10 January 2006
One billion songs Sold: February 23, 2006
(Alex Ostrovsky of West Bloomfield, Michigan, bought the one billion song "Speed of Sound" Coldplay. He then received a phone call from Steve Jobs, with the good news that iPods became sixteen to ten, an iMac, a gift certificate of $ 10,000 to music, and a scholarship on behalf at the Juilliard School.)
1.5 billion songs sold: September 12, 2006
2000000000 songs sold: 10 January 2007
2.5 billion songs For sale: April 9, 2007
3000000000 songs sold: July 31, 2007
4000000000 songs sold: January 15, 2008
5000000000 songs sold: June 19 2008
6000000000 songs sold: January 6, 2009
8 billion songs sold: July 21, 2009
8600000000 songs sold: September 9th, 2009
10 billion songs On sale: February 24, 2010
Louie sulcus (SUL'-sir) Woodstock, Georgia downloaded Guess things happen that way for Johnny Cash. In 71 years, is the oldest winner of the stage. He received a call from Steve Jobs and iTunes gift card for $ 10,000.
Video
1 million videos sold: October 31, 2005
+ 3 million videos sold: December 6, 2005
8000000 videos sold: 10 January 2006
15 million videos sold: February 23, 2006
45000000 videos sold: September 12, 2006
50000000 TV episodes sold: 10 January 2007
Sold 1.3 million feature films: January 10, 2007
2000000 length movies sold, July 31, 2007
200 million TV episodes sold, October 16, 2008
1 + million episodes of high Definition sold: October 16, 2008
Applications
10 million applications downloaded: July 14, 2008
100 million downloaded applications: September 09 2008
200 million downloaded applications: October 22, 2008
300000000 Application downloaded: December 5, 2008
500 million applications downloaded: 16 January 2009
800 million downloaded applications: March 17, 2009
Thousand million applications downloaded: April 23, 2009
1500000000 downloaded applications July 14, 2009
Applications 1.8 million Uploaded: September 9, 2009
2000000000 applications downloaded: September 28, 2009
Market share
Steve Jobs announced in his "It's Showtime" keynote Apple had 88% of the legal download music market in the U.S. on September 12, 2006.
Apple announced the iTunes Store has sold over two million movies, making it the world's most popular online movie store April 11, 2007.
Apple announced that iTunes Store passed Best Buy to become the second largest music retailer in the U.S. behind Wal-Mart on February 26, 2008, and finally become the number one, April 3, 2008.
Internationalization
Originally only Mac OS X that had credit cards with a billing address U.S. could buy songs with the service, but Steve Jobs, Apple CEO, announced his intention to support both Windows users and not American. Windows Version iTunes and Windows platform support in the iTunes Music Store were announced on October 16, 2003 May, available immediately. Since 2004, the service was available in a number of countries other than the United States:
On June 15, 2004, the iTunes Music Store was launched in France, Germany and the UK. According to a statement Apple press release, the iTunes Music Store has sold a combined total European 800,000 songs a week, with 450,000 songs sold in the United Kingdom.
On October 26 2004, nine countries were added to the iTunes Music Store in an expansion of the department store of the EU: Austria, Belgium Finland, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. This availability extended to all countries that were then in the euro area with the exception of the Republic of Ireland, where the iTMS became available on January 6, 2005. These countries also pay 0.99 for the songs, and have a shared catalog system / database. Stores Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Greek have been located. Some of these shops now (still) missing video clips, movies and television programs (Such as Portuguese, Belgian, Dutch, Italian iTunes, Spanish, Irish, Greek, Austrian, Swiss, Danish, Swedish, Finland and Norway in the shops). The French, Germans, Americans, British and stores are located in their respective countries and have different catalogs, including but not limited to music, music videos, movies, TV series and iPhone Apps.
On December 3, 2004, the Office of Fair Trading has referred the UK iTunes Music Store to the Commission European consumers by preventing an EU country to buy music from stores other European countries, in violation of EU free trade legislation, The immediate cause of the referral was because the price charged EUR 0.99 UK0.68 area equivalent to sterling, rather than actually applied UK0.79 there. The iTunes Store not yet available in one of the countries that joined the euro zone after the original release of storelovenia (2007), Cyprus (2008), Malta (2008) and Slovakia (2009).
The iTunes Music Store was launched in Canada on December 3, 2004.
On May 10, 2005, the iTunes Music Store opens in Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and Denmark after about two weeks of speculation about these countries (and Australia) the receipt of the store.
Apple has officially launched the iTunes Music Store in Japan August 4, 2005, 1 million songs available. Over the next four days, the store had sold one million songs faster than stock U.S.. In addition to a long delay, Apple has not fixed a price for singles. Gurus [that]? He speculates that this may have indicated the introduction of the new structure prices for the remains [Store in the future for record companies?] Who would like to see higher prices for new songs. This extension to other countries was announced in January 2009.
The iTunes Music Store was launched in Australia October 25, 2005. The launch of iPod with video can also be seen the launch of the store with music videos and short films from Pixar. iTunes gift cards (as they are called now) are now available in many more stores, as JB Hi-Fi, David Jones and Woolworths chain of stores. Access was given by mistake to the people of New Zealand, too. failure of the negotiations with Sony BMG that none of the artists seal were available at the time the launch, added after the January 17, 2006. On June 23, 2008, television programs were added to the Australian iTunes Store, with a combination of both Australian and international programming.
On November 1, 2006, the store began offering a range of content, including Latinos television programs and music by Latin Americans, Mexico and Puerto Rico customers.
Wikinews has related news: Apple releases iTunes New Zealand
The iTunes Store (with an Apple Store) was officially launched in New Zealand December 6, 2006, although users were briefly to New Zealand buy at the store when Australia opened its doors until the gap has closed.
Many users of the central and southern Europe are waiting for your version of iTunes.
The newly developed iTunes Movie rentals will be released outside the United States within one year from July 2008. [Citation needed]
On June 4, 2008, the United Kingdom and Canada has become one of the first countries to be able to buy and rent movies from the iTunes Store UK6.99 UK2.49 rental and purchase and C $ C $ 14.99 3.49, respectively.
On August 14, 2008, Australia and New Zealand became the countries in the fourth and fifth, respectively, have DVDs available in iTunes of leading firms in the Walt Disney and Lions Gate International. 21st Century Fox, Sony Pictures, Paramount, and other major film companies is expected to be released.
Television programs have been added to iTunes Australia in June 24-21 ABC titles in the U.S., Australia ABC, Disney Channel, MTV and Channel 9. Entertainment included Summer Heights High, Scrubs, The Hills, Lost, Hannah Montana and Desperate Housewives.
On August 4, 2009, Mexico became the first country Latin America in having a music store, the price of Songs MX $ 12 each and music videos for MX $ 24. There are also plans to sell movies in the near future, Gift cards also launched, will be available for $ 200 MX, MX $ 300, $ 600 and MX. The Spanish used the Bank of Mexico has changed to Spanish Mexico.
At the Macworld Conference and Expo 2009, Apple has given no new information on the future (possible) integration and expansion of music videos television programs and films in other European countries. The shops in the UK, Germany and France are currently the only European businesses with local authorities and / or selections localized television shows, movies and music videos.
File Format
Originally, the songs are encoded using FairPlay-encrypted 128 kbit / s AAC streams in a layer mp4, m4p extension using ..
Despite the licenses for the AAC compression and the MP4 file format are readily available, in general, Apple has agreed not to license its FairPlay proprietary encryption system to other manufacturers of mobile devices, devices that are capable of playing Apple Fairplay encryption songs sold on the iTunes Store. The only exceptions were three mobile phones sold by Motorola in 20,056 years: the Motorola ROKR E1, Motorola Motorola RAZR V3i and SLVR L7.
Currently, digital booklets included with some disks are in PDF format. With this iPod software, these files can not be played on an iPod.
On 29 May 2007 on EMI tracks were made available in a format without DRM unless called iTunes Plus. These files are not protected and AAC format encoded at 256 kbps, twice the rate securities purchased through standard services. Are labeled as "purchased AAC audio file (. M4a) instead "Protection of AAC audio files (. M4P) in iTunes and the context menu by right clicking on the song includes an option to convert to MP3. In January , 2009 Apple announced that all music will be available in iTunes Plus format, stop selling music with DRM on iTunes.
In April, sales of protected music ended in the western versions of the store, makes all the music on the iTunes Store "iTunes Plus." Some videos are also available on iTunes Plus ", which give more bitrate video and superior audio bitrates. ITunes users can choose to" upgrade "any of his music iTunes downloaded from iTunes Plus, if you want payment, but require most of the songs to do so. the FairPlay DRM protected music is still available iTunes Japan.
In September 2009, Apple introduced the iTunes LP (known before launch by the codename "Cocktail"), whose vision, along interactive content titles of albums and lyrics.
DRM
A fifth-generation white iPod headphones. The only handheld devices can play music protected in the iTunes Store are iPods, iPhone, iPod Touch and some Motorola phones like the ROKR.
Apple's FairPlay digital rights management (DRM) is integrated in iTunes, which manages the songs purchased from iTunes Store. iTunes FairPlay has to implement three major constraints:
Users can make up to seven CD copies of any particular playlist containing songs purchased from the iTunes Store.
Users can access their songs on up to five computers.
Songs can be read on a computer with iTunes or an iPod, other MP3 players are not compatible with FairPlay encoded tracks.
There is no restriction on the number of iPods to which a purchased song can be transferred nor the number of times an individual song can be burned to CD.
When Apple initially introduced Fairplay, songs purchased from iTunes had limits of three machines and simultaneous CD copies of a ten playlist. Setting the current limit be done with the introduction of iTunes 4.5 in April 2004, presumably as a result of the renegotiation of Apple had with major labels.
technology Apple's DRM is fragile. Several programs have been written to remove the package and let the FairPlay AAC files for use without technological restrictions. Put simply, a user can convert protected files to unprotected MP3 format by burning them to an audio CD and then ripping back to iTunes. (Some audio quality is lost This transcoding a lossy format to another, though the CDs are lossless, usually at the end and beginning formats are both at a loss) Another solution, but also the way of loss of transcoding the files is to record the wave "Out Mix" using an audio recording program (such as Audacity or Audio Hijack Pro) while playing the song in iTunes, and then encoded in a format the user's choice.
Competitors accuse Apple of using iPod, the iTunes Store, and "FairPlay" to establish a vertical monopoly and a lock-in for iPod users use iTunes exclusively (and vice versa). This lock has two aspects:
Apple to maintain tight control of its FairPlay encryption. Other online music stores can not sell music files encoded with FairPlay, and devices competitive companies like Creative Labs and iRiver can not play these files. This means that consumers who want to listen to songs downloaded from the iTunes Store or you must have an iPod or convert the files in an open format.
The iPod can not play files encoded in WMA format from Microsoft or RealNetworks protected propeller is used by other online music stores. IPod users who want to play music from other stores Bypass DRM files.
In July 2004, RealNetworks started an program called Harmony, which converts files purchased RealNetworks RealRhapsody service into a FairPlay-compatible format an iPod could play. In response, Apple accused RealNetworks to "adopt the tactics and ethics of a hacker to break into the iPod." and released a firmware update that made iPods unable to play files type. On January 3, 2005, an iTunes Music Store customers sued, claiming the company had violated U.S. antitrust laws by freezing their competitors.
In 2006, a controversy erupted over a French bill aimed at strengthening the protection of works of art against "piracy" or illegal copying, certain provisions of the law could be used to request Apple to provide information about its FairPlay system to manufacturers of the players competition. Apple pressure groups and partners have protested the bill, and even suggested that tolerates "state-sponsored piracy." Some American commentators have argued that the law was a protectionist measure against the iPod.
Movement Against DRM
On February 6, 2007, Steve Jobs, has asked the Big Four labels registry to allow their music to be sold without DRM. On April 2, 2007, Apple and the record company EMI has announced that the iTunes Store begin offering as an option to purchase additional songs EMI catalog-AAC encoded at 256 kbps without FairPlay DRM or otherwise.
On 29 May 2007 Apple released version 7.2 of its iTunes software, allowing users to purchase DRM-free music and video clips of the participation of the labels. These new files available on the iTunes Store, have been called iTunes Plus music from Apple.
In October 2007, iTunes Plus is no longer an option. It had become automatically for all the contents of iTunes Plus License. In addition, the cost price of iTunes Plus DRM.
Almost immediately after the launch of iTunes Plus, reports surface that sell songs without DRM through the iTunes Store contains the credentials on the client, embedded address full name of the account purchase and email as metadata in the archive. Although this information has always been in iTunes downloads with no DRM and Fairplay, we believe that remains on the slopes as capable to trace the source of illegally share tracks online, where the lack of DRM makes it much easier now. Group concerned about privacy personal data could be misused if the goods to which files have been stolen, and perhaps unfairly incriminate a user in case of copyright infringement.
On January 6, 2009 at Macworld Expo, Apple announced a major review of the catalog of iTunes Plus with Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, Warner Music Group and EMI to offer all their music on iTunes Plus immediately. Since the announcement, 8 million songs have been available in Apple DRM. In April 2009, all songs are available iTunes Plus format, with the exception of the Japanese bank iTunes.
Promotions
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The Super Bowl Sunday February 1, 2004, Apple launched a promotion with Pepsi that have 100 million songs, through tokens on selected bottles caps soft drinks. Unfortunately Apple, Pepsi bottles not properly distribute the major metropolitan areas until only weeks before the promotion ended, despite the expansion of one months of the deadline for Apple. The promotion was repeated from January to December 31, 2005, with 200 million songs available, and an iPod Mini given every hour.
The July 1, 2004, Apple announced that from the sale of the 95 millionth song, an iPod would be transferred to the purchaser of each title one hundred thousandth, for a total of 50 iPods. The buyer of the 100 millionth song will receive a PowerBook, iPod, and the U.S. gift certificate $ 10,000 iTunes Music Store.
Ten days later, July 11, Apple announced it had sold 100 million songs in the iTunes Music Store. The 100 millionth song was titled "Somersault (Dangermouse remix)" Zero 7, purchased by Kevin Britten of Hays, Kansas. He then received a phone call Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who offered his congratulations, and third generation Laser 40GB iPod engraved with a message Thanks a.
Inspired by the success of marketing at Pepsi, with many iTunes gift, Coca-Cola partnered with 7-Eleven to give a free iTunes song with every 32 oz Slurpee frozen beverage until July 31, 2005. Songs can be redeemed before August 31, 2005 through the introduction of a code printed on the Slurpee cup into the iTunes Music Store application. Coca-Cola did this despite his own music store, myCokeMusic.com, who participated with iTunes Music Store in Europe. myCokeMusic.com ceased operations on July 31, 2006.
On July 5, 2005, Apple announced it was telling a half a billion songs. The purchaser of each song 100,000th 500 million would receive an iPod mini and a gift card for 50 songs. The grand prize for the person who downloads the 500 millionth song was 10 iPods of their choice, a gift card for 10,000 songs, 10 gift card for 50 songs or tickets for the tour of four World Coldplay. Twelve days later, on 17 July, Apple announced that 500 million songs had been sold in the iTunes Music Store. The 500 millionth song, purchased by Amy Greer of Lafayette, Indiana, was "Mississippi Girl" by Faith Hill.
On July 28, 2005, Apple and Gap announced a promotion downloaded from the iTunes Music Degree Award Gap customers who tried a pair of Gap jeans. From August 8 to August 31 December 2005, every customer who has tried on any pair of Gap jeans could receive a free download of a song of their choice from the iTunes Music Store.
On February 7, 2006, Apple announced that it was the countdown to the one billion song downloads and began a promotion similar to the previous 100 million and 500 million of the countdown. The need to download the song one billion receive a 20 "iMac iPod, 60GB ten, and a $ 10,000 iTunes U.S. Music Card. The one billion song was purchased on February 23, 2006 by Alex Ostrovsky from West Bloomfield, Michigan. The song has been bought "Speed of Sound" in the context of Coldplay's X & Y album.
On July 25, 2006, Facebook and iTunes began offering a promotion in which members of the Apple Students group receive a free 25-song sampler each week until September 30 genres of music. The idea behind the promotion was for students to more familiar and enthusiastic about each service as fall classes approached. However, to prevent abuse of the promotion, the code provided per week that Facebook has stopped working after buying a million times. Moreover, the promotion caused discontent among the foreign students, because the code is valid only in the U.S. iTunes Music Store.
On April 10, 2009, Apple announced that it will count up the implementation billion. Applications are applications for iPod touch and iPhone. Creating a counter that is still operating on Friday, Apple countdown. Connor Mulcahey, 13, of Weston, CT, downloaded the application one billion, "Bump" Bump for technologies and will receive a Macbook Pro 17 "32GB iPod Touch, a Time Capsule and a gift card of $ 10,000 for the iTunes store.
On February 11 2010 Apple announced that the bill down from 10 million downloads. A gift card of $ 10,000 was offered as a prize.
Other Platforms
Although iTunes are only compatible with Mac OS X and Windows operating systems and devices, users on other platforms have been able to purchase music from the iTunes Store with a variety methods. iTunes is well known for running Linux via the Wine compatibility layer, but this method only works with x86 PCs. There were other programs developed to access the iTunes Store, including SharpMusique (no longer functional).
Technical Details
Since iTunes 9.0, the pages of the store is supplied with standard HTML with a special header. iTunes uses WebKit to display these pages. Before iTunes 9.0, iTunes Store was carried out using a custom XML format describes the position of all items, boxes, album covers and all their property, including if a reference link can be dragged into iTunes and other documents. The portion of the App Store to be still made that way. The shop was written in WebObjects – Apple application server it acquired NeXT. The content is downloaded from the iTunes Store using a program data internal Apple called iTunes Producer, which automatically encodes and adds metadata to files downloaded. [Citation needed]
Litigation
Apple Records
Article Home: Apple Corps vs. Apple Computer
For three years, a record of the Beatles Apple Records have been in a legal dispute, Apple Corps v. Apple Computer, Apple Computer the name "Apple." On May 8, 2006, a decision was rendered in favor of Apple Computer, but Apple Records, said it would appeal the decision. Despite this, plans were announced by Neil Aspinall in April 2006 and completely release and re-create the entire Beatles catalog online music service without specifying, and the release of unpublished work by the band. No date has been set yet. Also been reported that the catalog of Beatles music could be initially that only appear in iTunes, which Apple is in talks with the British group EMI online distribution agreement that may be unique for a limited time. In its January 9, 2007 speech of Macworld, Apple, Steve Jobs used the song "Lovely Rita" to present music-playback capabilities of the new iPhone the company. This was seen by industry observers as further evidence that the Beatles catalog will be introduced the iTunes Music Store catalog in a near future. On February 5, 2007, Apple Corps and Apple Inc. announced that they had reached an agreement of their legal disputes. In a related development, Apple announced August 14, 2007 that the entire solo catalog of John Lennon will be available on iTunes. The solo catalogs of the other three Beatles Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison is also available on iTunes. While the official Beatles catalog is not yet available, some of your music by different artists are available.
The Consumer Council of Norway challenge EULA
On June 6, 2006, the Norwegian Consumer Ombudsman, Sweden and Denmark launched a joint letter open to Apple regarding the EULA of iTunes through the Norwegian Consumer Ombudsman Bjørn Erik Thon. The iTunes case is based on a formal complaint by the Consumer Council Norway on January 25, 2006.
Main complaints are:
The EULA is unbalanced to the detriment of the client. Scandinavian law requires that any written agreement to encourage the two parties. The weaker party also enjoys protection from exploitation, in accordance with the laws of Norwegian consumers.
The iTunes Using the store digital rights management limits the number of devices purchased songs can be played on.
iTunes contract authorizing the Company to any time to change the terms of the contract without notice, including the selection of players or software to be used for iTunes files, and the number of times where a customer can modify or copy files and purchased.
The EULA is both vague and difficult to understand for customers.
EULA states the legal relationship between the company and customers is regulated by English contract law. It is not reasonable to expect that Norwegian consumers have a thorough knowledge of English law. The Products marketed to Norwegian consumers in Norway are subject to Norwegian law a right that can not be excluded by a clause in the contract of the company standard client.
The EULA removes responsibility for damages due to iTunes the computer software errors, although the responsibility can not be waived in the Act Scandinavian consumer.
Apple has responded July 31, 2006.
On January 22, 2007, consumer groups, Germans and French have joined forces with Norway and Finland. Its goal is to create a united EU front against iTunes (Germany and France, have had their negotiation process with iTunes.) According to the press release from Apple is in favor of it. The key points in negotiations were:
The interoperability of consumers should have the right and ability to play their music anywhere any device of their choice.
Change iTunes conditions must remove the right to change the terms and conditions (EULA) at any time without the consent of the consumer.
iTunes must change its liability clause limiting their liability for damages to consumers if they are caused by content sold on iTunes.
Applicable to consumers the right to enter into a contract with iTunes should be able to invoke the rules of consumer protection, in accordance the law of the country in which they live.
Competition for the EU
In 2004, Which? magazine has complained to the European Commission about the rise in UK prices for the same songs sold in the EU. Normally € 0.99 in the European Union and 79 pence in the UK. In 2008, the Commission withdrew its investigation after Apple agreed end price discrimination.
Content dispute
Universal Music Group
On July 1, 2007, The New York Times reported that Universal (Now the global music company) would not renew its annual contract to sell music through iTunes. Instead of that, Universal said it would market music to Apple at will, allowing you to remove their songs from the iTunes service on short notice, if both parties agreed on the price or other conditions.
On August 9, 2007, UMG announced a plan to sell songs in MP3 format without digital rights management, through a variety of online services like Amazon GBox MP3 and start-ups. While these issues are still available on the iTunes Store, Universal has chosen to license these songs in DRM-free formats only through other services.
NBC Universal TV series
On August 31, 2007, Apple announced that programming on the NBC television schedule 2007-08 not would be available on iTunes. NBC reported that Apple is the day it would not renew his contract. He then explained that this amendment applies only series produced NBC Universal Studios, owned by Universal Media, including Universal-produced shows on other networks such as the Chamber of Representatives. NBC programs produced by other studies, such as Chuck (Warner Bros.) Companion (20th Century Fox), will be available on iTunes.
Apple has said publicly that NBC did not renew his contract if Apple agreed to a price increase of U.S. $ 4.99 per episode, what is not. NBC disputes that claim, saying that Apple is opposed to the request of the NBC to package shows together and make wholesale prices more flexible. NBC says it never asked to double the price of wholesale and insisted that their emissions will be sold through the iTunes Store and early December. Other networks sell their emissions iTunes did not follow suit, as some predicted would happen. [Citation needed] On 1 December 2007 were dismissed NBC shows from iTunes.
On September 9, 2008, Apple and NBC Universal announced that NBC is once again available on iTunes U.S. Store.
The iTunes Store in the UK has many programs available from NBC, but are distributed by Universal Studios. The price of these stations are higher than they were in the American store, offering an example, season 3 of The Office is priced at UK43.47 (approximately U.S. $ 72) $ 52.99 (United States Store United HD).
See also
Comparison of online music stores
Apple TV – Set top device that plays media from iTunes on a better definition TV or high definition
digital brochure – notes included in selected online shopping provided in PDF format
iBookstore – Shop and also from Apple, which offers content to IPAD EPUB
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