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Home Stereo Equipment With Online Music Purchasing

Posted by michael on from the one-click dept.

nebulous bee writes "Yahoo is reporting on a new piece of home stereo equipment going on sale in Japan that has an ethernet port that can be linked directly to an online music store. You can purchase new music using the unit's built-in LCD display and hear it 'instantly'. No PC required. There are no plans to sell it yet outside of the land of the rising sun."

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  1. Re:Well that sounds stupid by mlush · · Score: 0, Troll
    What are you, some sort of gay homosexual faggot?

    Would a gay homosexual be straight? Its a good job you put in that faggot or I would have been confused

  2. Music rights by Sean80 · · Score: 1, Troll
    So I pretty much got called an idiot the other day for saying that it pisses me off that Apple won't let me re-download music from their servers if I ever happen to lose the music that I've bought. Back it up, they said. If you're stupid enough to not back it up, then you deserve to lose your music, they said.

    So what happens with a piece of kit like this? If I lose my stereo, or buy a new one, do I have to buy my music again? How on earth is this different from the situation with Windows XP nowadays, where I have to beg and scrape with Microsoft to let me use the software I bought and paid for if I buy a new PC?

    I've said it once, and I'll say it again. Digital media companies are trying to have their cake and eat it too. What's funny to me is that they will end up getting exactly what they want from digital music, and won't lose a thing in the long run from P2P. What is it? Iron-fisted control over our music. You have a new device? Pay us again to listen to your music on it. You lost your music? Too bad, you're the idiot, even though it would cost us next to nothing to let you download it again.

    Bah!