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.