Overly Critical Guy writes:
For pete's sake, songs are.99 each now and albums are as low as eight bucks.
It would be wonderful if we could buy the right to play a song for $0.99! Some of us have purchased the same songs over and over on different formats (8-track, tape, CD, AAC, etc.), and we still have a low probability of being able to legally play them on future systems.
What we really get for $0.99 is about 10% (AAC encoding) of a DRM restricted song that we can only play until the next major upgrade.
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Overly Critical Guy writes: .99 each now and albums are as low as eight bucks.
For pete's sake, songs are
It would be wonderful if we could buy the right to play a song for $0.99! Some of us have purchased the same songs over and over on different formats (8-track, tape, CD, AAC, etc.), and we still have a low probability of being able to legally play them on future systems.
What we really get for $0.99 is about 10% (AAC encoding) of a DRM restricted song that we can only play until the next major upgrade.