Apple products are able to play digital music that have a special encoding which makes pirating music more difficult. In economic terms, this encoding is an attempt to:
A) make digital music more like a private good and less like a public good.
B) reduce the negative externalities of digital music.
C) reduce the adverse selection problem of digital music.
D) increase the marginal social benefit of digital music.

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The special encoding makes digital music more excludable and less non-rivalrous, characteristics of a private good, thus reducing its nature as a public good.

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