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iTunes, One Billion Suckers Served?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the drm-ftw dept.

Thomas Hawk writes "Apple is out hyping their one billionth iTunes download today, but is building your music library in a format that could be obsolete in the future really the best strategy? Will the consumer once again have to someday replace their iTunes track just like they had to replace their LP, cassette, and CD only to get their music on their hot new non Apple mp3 phone of the future? "

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  1. dupe... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/24/ 0617244

    (damn lame time filter...)

  2. suckers indeed.... by BewireNomali · · Score: -1, Troll

    ... only homos pay for what they can easily get for free. complete internalization of arbitrary social mores with no room for revision or improvisation. I'd never buy anything that I can easily get for free with little fear of recrimination. It's just stupid. My music collection is great and timeless. If they want me to pay for music - make sure I can't get it anywhere else for free.

    That goes for you too, Hollywood. You can pry bit torrent from my cold dead fingers!

    --
    un burrito me trampeó.
  3. My Wife Says Never Again by snarfer · · Score: -1, Troll
    A few weeks ago I blogged that my wife won't ever buy form iTunes again. She said,
    "I will never buy another album online again. I feel ripped off. All I got are some lines on my iTunes. When I buy a CD I have the CD and I can do what I want with it. I don't want to look at pictures of albums someone is trying to get me to buy. I don't want anything where people are trying to get me to buy something and I don't want to pay another subscription fee. I want to see and feel the music I have."
    But THEN:

    My wife is in a belly-dance troupe and they rehearse at our house. Each week she burns a CD of the night's dance music and puts in into the little stereo in the rehearsal room because the speakers are loud enough for the dance practice, and the buttons for replay, advance, etc. are easy to use. But last night the computer refused to make the CD. It said she had already burned seven CDs with a certain tune on them. She had purchased the album containing that tune at iTunes. 'Rented' might be a better term than purchased, I guess. Or maybe I should say that she was alowed to listen to it a few times, for her money.

    Do I need to add that now she is even less thrilled with the idea of getting her music online?