Technical Glitches Plague BuyMusic.com

An anonymous reader submits: "Despite its much larger target market, BuyMusic.com does not seem to be the runaway success that Apple's iTunes Music Store was. USA Today is reporting that customers have experienced technical glitches that prevent them from playing their purchases. Another customer reports that the BuyMusic tech support does little more than say 'Sorry, but that's YOUR problem.' Finally, a musician whose music is for sale at BuyMusic questions the legality of BuyMusic's catalog." Scriptygoddess's account of her unhappy experience is mirrored here.

Comments

Re:RTFM

[VudooCrush]

No, it's your responsibility to make sure that software works on your computer before you buy something.. If I purchased non-synthetic oil for my Viper and thats all that I'm supposed to be using for it and poured it in and my car broke.. sorry, your problem.. not the oil maker.

CD's are also just licenses

[Captain_Chaos]

You don't buy the music you just license them.

That's also true when you buy a CD or a tape or acquire music on any other medium. You don't own the music, you just get a license to play the copy of the music you received, and then only in private. You can't copy it (fair use just says copyright holders can't sue in certain circumstances), you can't broadast it, etc.

You only ever own the music you write and perform yourself...

Re:Sci-Fi Club r0x0rs

[orthogonal]

I'm not just a member, I'm the president. :) The Ramapo College Sci-Fi Club is around 50 members strong

The parent post was accidently redacted. We aployize for the error.

I've restored the deleted content:

"We hold 5 meetings per week (anime viewing, tv viewing, movie viewing, and 2 role-playing sessions) so we hardly have time to realize that the closest we've gotten to having girlfriends is fantasizing about being the tentacle monster in the anime movies."