Well, if it sounds too good to be true it probably is! According to this Wired blog post, Apple is watermarking user names and e-mail addresses in the new iTunes Plus DRM free downloads. So there is no DRM but there is an anti-piracy measure built in, stands to reason. I guess it is still a step in the right direction, however if they are doing this to thwart piracy why do we have to pay a premium price for the removal of the DRM? Is it the hopes of EMI and Apple that we will pay more money for the ability to put the tunes on whatever device we want? However, as Michael Calore reports in his Wired blog post, it's only a matter of time before someone figures out a way to manipulate the file and change the watermark.
As an aside, EMI's website is really awful!
As an aside, EMI's website is really awful!
