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EMI Promises Downloadable Music

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday November 14, 2002 @05:31PM from the working-with-technology-rather-than-against-it dept.

SataiCam writes "The Economist has an article up referring to EMI's plans to implement digital music downloading starting on December 1 through a whole host of 'distributors'. They claim it will allow users to get music in 'the formats they are demanding' (ogg?), to burn copies of songs, and download them to other devices. Here's the press release from EMI."

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Re:When will they learn? by flynt · 2002-11-15 05:00 · Score: 1, Offtopic

CD was $14.99

You must be talking about music CD's, because I buy a lot of CD's that contain computer code that cost upwards of 100 dollars, I've even seen some of these CD's that go for upwards of 10,000 dollars. This leads me to believe I'm not paying for a CD...