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iTunes Accepts PayPal
lemist writes "Apple Computer Inc. on Friday said customers of its iTunes online music store can now use eBay Inc.'s online payment service PayPal to buy songs and audiobooks, becoming the second major online music store to do so. Story here."
All of your money are belong to us -Paypal
This is another way of starting a sig with this and ending it with that.
they do now.
You know its comments like this that show where /.s groupthink head is.
$$ goes to the artists on Apple's side as well. Its just it goes to the guys that the artist choose to market and distribute them. And for some reason folks seem to think that means nothing.
As much as I respect TMBG, I would have never heard of them other than the fact back when their first album came out a good friend a Musicland had gotten some promos from their label and gave me one. Few artists can afford to send their albums to all the music stores in the nation as well as all pertinent radio stations, nor have the logistics to do this even if they wanted to.
I still think their first album was their best -- the fact that I got it for free withstanding -- I had to dub my tape to CD years ago and I still don't have a good copy of their stuff. I might have to go check out their site and buy it again. But again, without the major labels, I would have never heard of them or if I did, it would have been a lot past the time in my life when music like this appealed to me.
Seriously, though, I'm sure there's something buried in the fine print that says you can't resell iTunes songs. Remember, the product comes from the same recording industry that wanted to ban the sale of previously owned CDs so that you had to pay full price for a new one (which, if they'd been successful in banning sales of used CDs, would have suffered 100% depreciation the instant you bought it).
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
You may be looking for allofmp3.com, a perfectly legal digital music seller (RIAA propoganda notwithstanding), accepts paypal and will sell music to anyone, in any country, in just about any format you care for (including unencumbered versions of Apple aac if that's your thing).
They are located in Russia, licensed by the Russian eqiuvelent of the RIAA, and with current favorable exchange rates the music costs pennies on the dollar compared to iTunes or other western resellers. What's more, they have a better selection of music one cannot find at iTunes.
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