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Rent Music Over the Net

Posted by michael on from the none-of-this-rent-to-own-stuff-either dept.

NerveGas writes: "Financial Times is reporting that two competing services, both backed by major music labels, are about to offer legal music downloads. For $9.95 per month, you can download up to 100 songs per month. The catch? Cancel your service, and you lose the ability to hear *any* of the songs that you've downloaded. There are other caveats, as well - but at least it's a start." So what happens after you've got your hard drive filled with rented music and the monthly fee goes up to $199.95/month? Pay up, or lose it all...

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  1. I've got a better idea... by darkov · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Why don't we download our music for $0 per month, and keep it forever? One day record companies will wake up to the fact that this is what they are competing against.

    Until then, good luck.

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  2. How... by Sir_Real · · Score: 1, Redundant

    There is no way they can keep me from running my speaker output into my line-in and recording the sound from there. They can't be betting that this will keep people from pirating music. My guess is that there is some kind of value added in addition to the music content, otherwise they're running a glorified ftp site with broken music.

  3. Re:Why rent when you can buy? by fatwreckfan · · Score: 2, Redundant

    I agree. E-Music is great. You can get albums on that site that aren't even in print any more. Sign up for a free trial and you can download 100 mp3s that are yours regardless, and if you don't want to stay on with them just cancel. I've done it, and it was simple and easy.

  4. Re:This stuff here by sulli · · Score: 1, Redundant
    The straight retail CD business has a better model than this.

    That's the idea. Upon reflection I am sure these are PR moes set up to fail. And they will!

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