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Posted by: mystocks25
In reply to: None
Date:5/11/2006 9:00:41 PM
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Sony dances to Apple's tune

The electronics giant is adopting a format Apple favors -- but its players still can't play iTunes downloads. Plus: Online satire stings Halliburton.

By Owen Thomas, Business 2.0 Magazine online editor and Oliver Ryan, Fortune reporter
May 11, 2006: 2:49 PM EDT


SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - The headlines all screamed of a musical detente between Apple and Sony. But the headlines got it wrong. Sony is in fact adding support for AAC, a digital-music file format also used by Apple. But Sony isn't adopting FairPlay, the digital rights management system Apple (Research) uses in its iTunes Music Store to prevent piracy. Still, Sony's move will make it easier for iTunes users to move at least part of their music libraries onto Sony (Research) music players. Any songs they have ripped from CDs onto their hard drives in the unprotected AAC format -- the default setting in iTunes software -- will now play without requiring cumbersome recoding.


http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/11/technology/business2_browser0511/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote