• Valmond@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    I remember iTunes only letting you change computer like 2-3 times max before the drm would make mysic not work any more, but maybe it was no-drm in the beginning.

    I had a chinese 1GB shuffle though so IDK if that’s correct.

    The chinese shuffle also doubled up as a usb key (very useful back then) and also didn’t need iTunes to function smh.

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      27 days ago

      But then later for like $10 I could take all my pirate music, legitimize it, and download a copy from iTunes if theirs was better quality. That was nice.

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      27 days ago

      Yeah IIRC you’re right, though I remember you could contact apple and reset it.

      It was called FairPlay DRM and they only really got rid of it around a decade after iTunes launched. I’m not 100% but I think I had to pay to upgrade my already paid-for library to DRM free too