Originally posted by KieranU2:What's iTunes Match?
It's a subsciption service based on Apple's cloud movement. It matchs your songs in your library against the ones in Apple's library and stores them online for you but I think it also offers you a higher bitrate download of the songs in your library that are lower than 256kbps. I also believe that it doesn't care for illegal downloads, as long as the songs are matched it'll work. Suppose the annual £21.99 fee covers the illegal downloads. some info here
Reason I ask is that I wondered if you can actually download the songs at 256kbps to replace the 192kbps ones in your own library, if so I'll sign up.
(and I'm not supporting piracy at all, I own physically the 100% of my music)