AOL: Amazon Who?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday July 12, 2003 @12:34AM from the 900-lb-gorilla dept.

theodp writes "America Online said that it is now selling DVDs and CDs directly as part of its push into digital music, ending a temporary link it had with Amazon.com until it was able to do so itself. The step to sell physical CDs and DVDs is part of AOL's efforts to get a bigger share of the digital music pie to offset shrinkage in its dial-up Internet service and the slump in ad spending. AOL plans to build on its music offerings, which now include online music subscription service MusicNet, with a digital music store that will let users burn as many songs to CDs as they want."

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Like I would trust AOL by archen · 2003-07-12 01:24 · Score: 1, Troll

Who would really trust getting anything from AOL anyway? I mean it's one thing if I buy from Amazon and they mysteriously start customizing the home page to "fit my tastes" - which is sort of disturbing from a privacy sort of view, and also sort of disturbing seeing death metal stuff mixed in with anime on a front page. But if I had AOL and bought music from them, I imagine that the harassment would never end. I mean AOL is like a big commercial already, and with the control they have over their user's Internet experience, I can see major harassment to follow.