Would You Rent a Song For a Dime?

An anonymous reader writes "What's worse than a padlocking every song so that they will only play on certain devices? How about selling (renting) you songs that work on no devices? Astonishingly, this is what the music industry thinks we need. Warner Music is spending $20 million to back Lala, a startup devising a service to convince people to 'buy' 'web songs' for 10 cents each; these are then kept for safekeeping only by Lala with no download privileges. Industry insider Michael Robertson leaks the facts on this scheme, along with a seekrit URL so you can try it out."

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[OMNIpotusCOM]

So that's the reason... that bitch!

Is rule number two that the mod point fairy only gives you mod points when you completely disagree with what someone has said but can't express your thoughts into a coherent or humorous paragraph?

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[schon]

Also from the article:

Each song can played one time in its entirety with the built in flash player. Subsequent plays are limited to 30 seconds. So the "unlimited" number of plays are limted to 30 second clips.