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Amazon Plans Music Service To Rival iPod

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bringing-the-star-destroyers-around-for-a-broadside dept.

theodp writes "The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Amazon is in advanced talks with the four global music companies about a digital-music service that could be launched as soon as this summer. It would feature Amazon-branded portable music players, designed and built for the retailer, and a subscription service that would deeply discount and preload those devices with songs."

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  1. DRM by ObsessiveMathsFreak · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Is it going to be so crippled with DRM that I can't so much as plug a second set of speakers into my PC to listen to it on? This is all from the same company that stocked those Sony rootkit CDs. Do you really want to trust your system to them?

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