What will Apple do?


	What will Apple do?

docdoober

9-16-2007 12:04 PM

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ipod, apple, computers

docdoober says:

Watermarking? Ah, just the next level of "how safe is my stuff?"

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Concerned users could convert selections to MP3, but there
will be a generational loss in quality resulting from the transcoding. We also
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