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>"slip that past the record labels"

What does this feature has to do with that?

/curious




There's no technical reason to prevent people from getting music back off their devices. So the assumption is it was part of the DRM requirements that Steve Jobs claims the record labels forced him to accept.


Either (a) there were legal changes in Apple's contracts with the record labels, or (b) they might get be sued for enabling this feature.




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