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Japanese Companies Set to Compete with iTunes

Posted by Hemos on from the the-battle-for-the-moolah dept.

psiph writes "'Japan's two major online music distributors said [Thursday] they have agreed to tie up to push the distribution business... The tie-up accord was reached in the wake of the Aug. 4 launch of Apple's Latest News about Apple iTunes in Japan.'"

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  1. Re:iTunes Japan Failing Engrish Quota by Jeff+DeMaagd · · Score: 2, Informative

    I would think that this should have been moderated "funny" not "informative".

  2. eh by larry+bagina · · Score: 3, Informative
    sophisticated purveyors of music know that the Japanese release of many US albums contain additional tracks. It would be nice to get ahold of them individually, but it looks like these companies are only selling in sony's (retarded) ATRAC format and something else that looks even more obscure and attrocious, DRM wise. Too bad - they fail it.

    Guess I'll just have to keep buying import CDs (wink wink)

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