First Amazon MP3 became the first (and currently only) retailer to offer customers DRM-free MP3s from all four major music labels, and now Amazon.com is launching, with the help of PepsiCo Incorporated, a campaign to promote its iTunes store competitor. Starting on Super Bowl Sunday, Justin Timberlake will kick off a yearlong $1 billion giveaway of MP3s, CDs, videos, consumer electronics and other products from Amazon. It should be noted that Pepsi and Apple had a similar deal in 2004, which consisted of giving away 100 million free iTunes downloads. Amazon will spend more on its "Pepsi Stuff" advertising campaign than on any past marketing effort.
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Pepsi and Amazon promote Free Non-DRM Music
Slimy 
on 15 January 2008 - 01:02 · 15 comments & 11702 views
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Did you expect charity from a big corporation?
You can't keep a good hacker down, you know.
Me neither, but it could degrade the audio quality. It's a great victory to everyone, and hopefully this would mark the defeat of DRM-based music.
Basically it tags it with Pepsi or Amazon so you could dig into the mp3 and kind out it came from this promotion directly?
Does it do anything to the song otherwise? Degrade it in anyway or make it unusable somewhere specific?
Basically it tags it with Pepsi or Amazon so you could dig into the mp3 and kind out it came from this promotion directly?
Does it do anything to the song otherwise? Degrade it in anyway or make it unusable somewhere specific?
Does nothing to the quality of the audio - I don't know why people spread bull**** and lies about what it actually does.
If you don't share your music, it is a non-issue. The only people whining are those who want to share it with everyone in the neighbourhood - well, boo bloody hoo.
Or is a voice constanly saying in the background "Bought from Amazon.com, do not file share" over your chosen song
Or is a voice constanly saying in the background "Bought from Amazon.com, do not file share" over your chosen song
The same way in which you can hide things within a graphics file; you hide something within the file itself which leaves the audio quality. What form it takes? it might be a simple as a serial number which links back to you the end user, when it was purchased etc. so if it does go beyond your private collection they can trace it back to you.
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