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Amazon DRM-Free Music Store Goes Beta

Posted by kdawson on from the 2-million-songs-from-20-thousand-labels dept.

LowSNR writes "Amazon this morning moved their DRM-free music store into open beta. According to the release, 'Since all our digital music downloads are DRM-free, you can play them on anything that plays mp3s including PCs, Macs(tm), iPods(tm), Zunes(tm), Zens(tm), iPhones(tm), RAZRs(tm), and BlackBerrys. Plus, our Amazon MP3 Downloader application makes it easy to add your downloads to iTunes(tm) and Windows Media Player(tm), so you can sync up your devices or burn your music to CD hassle-free.' Not to mention Linux." Of course, without DRM few of the major labels play with them.

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  1. Read the fine print!!! by echo9 · · Score: 1, Troll

    -- From Amazon's MP3 Music Service: Terms of Use --
    "you agree that you will not redistribute, transmit, assign, sell, broadcast, rent, share, lend, modify, adapt, edit, sub-license or otherwise transfer or use the Digital Content."
    --

    Well apparently you can do whatever you want, but... don't you dare "USE" the Digital Content. Sounds like they covered all the bases.

    -oo-(tm)

  2. Re:Lossless damn it! by siyavash · · Score: 0, Troll

    I know that. But try comparing a 256kpbs mp3 to a "lossless" from CD and u'll get what I mean. Stop "marking" my words and I'm sure you DO undrestand what I mean. You are just trying to act either stupid and just try to be like "ooh, look at me, I'm so good at knowing useless facts"... bottom line is, the shit/crap they offer is WORST than CDs.

    Stupid idiots like you make my blood boil.