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Are all purchases DRM free now?! - Shivanand Velmurugan

Agreed the 4chan hack was horrible for those guys - Justin Fowler

haha not an April fools joke :) - Maya Baratz

@shivanand iTunes Store still not DRM-free yet - Vinko

and can you get previous purchases drm free? - Shawn McCollum

@Vinko I thought Daring Fireball just said that he noticed Apple store going DRM free! http://bit.ly/13JSN - Shivanand Velmurugan

iTunes Plus is now telling my I can upgrade (at the usual $0.30 cost) a huge chunk of my previously-purchased music to DRM-free, but not the majority of it. Still it looks like they did flip a switch somewhere since the number of tracks I can upgrade is several times the number I could upgrade yesterday. - Karim

So what they mean by 'all tracks' DRM free, is that you need to upgrade to iTunes Plus to get rid of the DRM? - RAD Moose

at least for *previously purchased*, DRM-protected music, it looks like you still need to "upgrade" at cost. Though at 30 cents per track, it's really not the ♫ end of the world as we know it. ♫ - Karim

I will stick with my DRM'd music then, it really hasn't affected me. - Spencer

Almost $64 for me... - Lee Hinde

Depends on how much you have bought so far.. as well as if it will be 60 cents per 69 cent track in the future. =) guess I should have asked for iTunes Gift Cards for Christmas =D - RAD Moose

Look out for a profits boost as people upgrade tracks. If 5% of the six billion songs sold get upgraded, that's around $90 million in additional revenue, at minimal cost to Apple. - Ian Betteridge

whoa, look another "Susan" on Friendfeed! hai! - Susan Beebe

Can you imagine and augmented reality Spore? heheh Well okay, I can actually do that. - Eric Rice

And well, in a world of customized avatars (that includes oh, i don't know, anything in *gaming*, not just worlds), you might be able to design little people. And hey, maybe scrape some data from facebook to give it a personality based on certain models of people in your social graph, huh? And maybe that will disrupt human relations. The jealous of the carbon vs. the bit. We wait in line for iPhones after all. Do we want to love the machine? - Eric Rice

Eric - have you checked out Seattle Science Foundation? http://seattlesciencefoundation.org I'll dig up some pics from my tour of their facilities, but you can go and check them out in SL already. Give me a couple days to track down my pics. I know Franza and several others on their board. Light years ahead of most orgs. Franza is deep. Their islands on SL are called Medipelago. Also check out http://2b3d.net. Randy and the 2B3D team built Medipelago. Right up your alley I'd imagine. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Franza's mantra - move photons not electrons. genius. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

I'll check it out. There's a huge huge opportunity here, from UI/UX to social interaction (even real-to-real via virtual). I think I've fallen into the AI pool since we know we can mangle the data around us, tangible or otherwise. - Eric Rice

agree. HUGE. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Let me know if you need 3D characters :) - sergiooo

Sergiooo you ever SEEN my avatars? ;) - Eric Rice

Nope, are they awesome? - sergiooo

http://flickr.com/photos... and http://www.flickr.com/photos... :) i think they kinda are - Eric Rice

Yup, pretty awesome :) - sergiooo

thats soo good! I am really into augmented reality stuff... - Alemsah Ozturk

There is good amount of possibilities with Eye toy and interaction. Imagine playing little big planet on your table, pushing them, taking them through platforms etc. Users will become part of the game, not just controlling through an interface - Alemsah Ozturk

That looks super cute! - Susan