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Off-The-Shelf Online Music Stores

Posted by timothy on from the commoditization dept.

jpkunst writes "The Chicago Sun-Times and C|Net news.com report about a new product from Loudeye Digital Media Solutions and Microsoft: pre-fab online music stores for companies who want to join the digital music goldrush. I wonder when this bubble is going to burst."

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  1. Why would anyone want to pay for music? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It makes no sense, just download it for free!

  2. Re:what bubble? by Neurotoxic666 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "thanks to the RIAA eating a chunk of the money "

    Ah yeah. I can see Apple almost out of business in a few years, blaming the RIAA and charging a levy on every CD sold. Hehe

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    You are more than the sum of what you consume. Desire is not an occupation.
  3. Re:what bubble? by Ab0rtRetryFail · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ech:
    There's a possibliity of making money of the referals, yes, but I'm not banking on it. The iPods are actually sold out anyways, I think they're becoming hard to find now.

    RA:
    I know its a shitty webpage, yes, but its a boilerplate geocities site, so I'm suprised that you expected any better.

    It's mainly there as a placeholder until I can get a more decent site up and running.