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- Shreyasva, on 02/26/2008, -21/+182its obviously no 2. they left out the piratebay
- Falldog, on 02/26/2008, -7/+103No lines, better prices, better selection, all from the comfort of your own home. What's the surprise?
- LordSkywalker, on 02/26/2008, -3/+69Adapt or die.
- MadKennyP, on 02/26/2008, -1/+62Not really a "retailer." In fact, sort of the opposite.
- lnfiniteLoop, on 02/26/2008, -5/+59Given that 9 months ago Best Buy only trailed Wal-Mart by a couple of percentage points (http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/06/22/itun ... it's only a matter of time before iTunes, now ahead of Best Buy, also eclipses Wal-Mart for the No. 1 spot...
- fishrjv, on 02/26/2008, -20/+72AmazonMP3 > iTunes
- chkdg8, on 02/26/2008, -0/+48"with an astounding 20 million songs sold on Christmas Day 2007 alone."
Those are impressive numbers. - rokinroj, on 02/26/2008, -0/+42And to think, early on the RIAA said that this is an impossible/impractical business model.
- bmonet, on 02/26/2008, -1/+28Amazon has
1. No DRM
2. Better encoding quality (256kbps vs 128kbps)
3. Usually a dollar cheaper per album
Itunes has:
1. greater selection
2. save a couple seconds from launching your web browser
I guess if you dont know what a hi-hat sounds like then you probably should just buy from itunes. - bigapple666, on 02/26/2008, -2/+28Give Amazon time. It won't be long. I'll never buy anything on iTunes again that is available on Amazon MP3 Download.
- cbreaker, on 02/26/2008, -12/+38If this is the future - sub-par quality digital downloads encumbered with DRM - I don't want any part of it. Call me a music distribution Luddite.
- Alexi1982, on 02/26/2008, -20/+44this is the future of the music industry!
- fribhey, on 02/26/2008, -2/+23please explain to me how that's ironic....
- treed, on 02/26/2008, -3/+23The Pirate Bay is not a retailer.
- FredFredrickson, on 02/26/2008, -2/+22I warmed up to iTunes after a while, but I prefer Amazon's superior quality (and non-DRM'd) MP3's now.
- sockpuppets, on 02/26/2008, -5/+24Apple or pear-ish.
- inactive, on 02/26/2008, -3/+22Hmmmm, iTunes Plus? Amazon? Buy a CD-RW and rip iTunes music to your heart's content? Any of this making sense?
- and303, on 02/26/2008, -1/+16I'd like to see "direct from musicians" to get to #1.
- noahhoward, on 02/26/2008, -5/+20"sub-par quality digital downloads encumbered with DRM"
DRM-free 256kbps AAC digital downloads - fixed it for you. - inactive, on 02/26/2008, -5/+20Buy an MP3 player that isnt an iPod.
Try to stream music to your 360 (or ANY device not made by Apple).
That is how it hurts the consumer. Not a difficult concept. - dacunni1, on 02/26/2008, -3/+18I'll take Amazon over iTunes any day. All of Amazon's mp3's are DRM-free, and most full albums are cheaper than they are on iTunes.
- cave, on 02/26/2008, -3/+17You mean just like Firefox has completely obliterated Internet Explorer off the face of the earth?
- sockpuppets, on 02/26/2008, -0/+13Yeah, I'm male. I'm dyslexic too, want to point that out as well?
Sheesh. - UberNick, on 02/26/2008, -0/+13Nah, this technology is still trending towards the future with retail audio sales and distribution. The DRM and reduced-quality will begin to disappear as retailers actually make an effort to compete with free services like thepiratebay.
- pimpzilla, on 02/26/2008, -1/+14I guess it's true what they say: "Idiots love DRM." Amazon is cheaper, 256k, and DRM free. Don't be a douche, refuse to download anything DRM'd.
- hrhs556x, on 02/26/2008, -5/+17The surprise is that so many people are buying DRM filled music, If you buy a CD or use Pirate Bay, its all yours, no DRM crap, i dont know about everybody else but the only time I use ITunes is when i recieve a gift card for it.
- colincornaby, on 02/26/2008, -0/+11And Ron Paul will win this years election!
- rokinroj, on 02/26/2008, -4/+15***** Walmart!
- inactive, on 02/26/2008, -3/+13Some people would rather not steal music.
- sKiLLa182, on 02/26/2008, -8/+18and P2P in general
- hiro, on 02/26/2008, -3/+13Better - yes. No 2 in retail sales - no.
- ShooterMcGavin, on 02/26/2008, -1/+11Personally, I buy actual CDs from non-RIAA affiliated labels/artists. Rip them into high bitrate mp3s and voila! Not only do I support the bands and music I like, I don't support the RIAA, AND I get non DRM'ed music.
Everyone wins! Ok... well, technically only the "good guys" win... (including myself)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_RIAA_member_l ... - superkendall, on 02/26/2008, -1/+10Even the Zune supports AAC. It's not quite as universal as MP3, but lots of things play it now.
- MonkeyFarts, on 02/26/2008, -0/+9I think that some people do notice the difference, but most don't. I personally don't notice the difference because I only have crummy audio equipment. Would I notice it if I had a $500 set of speakers? I don't know, because I'm never going to own a $500 set of speakers. =) I wouldn't mind seeing the quality make its way to at least 320kbps, though. I mean, why not?
- daihard, on 02/26/2008, -2/+11So you bought DRM songs from iTunes without even knowing that they cannot be played on devices other than iPods. I'm not sure if I should sympathize with you on that.
- timusca, on 02/26/2008, -14/+23All you people that bitch and moan about DRM forget 2 things:
1) The vast majority of people don't even know what DRM is and that their music has it
2) The people that DO know what it is (such as myself) don't give a damn because as long as its available to me when I need it, which has always been the case, I don't CARE that it has restrictions.
I simply don't understand why DRM hurts the consumer. If you want to burn your music to a CD and have a hard copy, go right ahead. Apple isn't stopping you and neither is the RIAA. - nblsavage, on 02/26/2008, -2/+10It appears at least some people want to get their music legally. Go figure.
- EntropyFan, on 02/26/2008, -1/+9The surprise will be if Amazon, with a larger selection, better prices, and totally DRM free, doesn't take them in the next quarter.
- inactive, on 02/26/2008, -1/+9"I simply don't understand why DRM hurts the consumer. If you want to burn your music to a CD and have a hard copy, go right ahead. Apple isn't stopping you and neither is the RIAA."
You don't understand why because you haven't experienced any problems, for instance my mom used iTunes for a while after getting a gift card, and stopped using it a couple months later, because she constantly had to re-authorize her songs, the iPod wouldn't even play until re-authorization. And that was the end of it for her. And she has no idea what DRM is. - inactive, on 02/26/2008, -3/+11its not like a tape cassette in a CD player, its like a sony branded CD not working in a Panasonic CD player.
- timusca, on 02/26/2008, -8/+16Then don't buy it if it doesn't fit your needs... that's like bitching because a tape cassette doesn't play in your CD player. No *****!
- santaliqueur, on 02/26/2008, -0/+8Soon? As in, maybe in 50 years?
Gotta wait for Songbird to actually mature. Oh yeah, they need to get around to starting a music store, if they want to "kill iTunes soon". - inactive, on 02/26/2008, -2/+10Remembering LimeWire is my number 1 reason not to use it.
- snak3st, on 02/26/2008, -1/+8I think we already established that.
- 1807, on 02/26/2008, -4/+11yea for people who never learned how to spell "the"
- Qumahlin, on 02/27/2008, -0/+6Ah the good ole "if you can't prove I would have paid for it in the first place, its not stealing" argument...your argument is so highly flawed that everytime someone uses this "defense" I giggle a little. It's still theft..understand that. You can rationalize it however you want, its still theft. I don't care if you wouldn't have paid 600 bucks for Adobe Photoshop, if you download it and use it your stealing. If you wouldn't have paid for it in the first place then surely you have no reason to download it and would have been fine with a free alternative like GIMP. Same goes for music, if you would have been fine not hearing the song and wouldn't have paid for it...why did you download it? Oh thats right, you downloaded it because you could...doesn't make it any less theft.
Don't get me wrong I steal music/movies/software everyday...I just don't try to ***** myself into thinking what I am doing is legal - fishrjv, on 02/26/2008, -0/+6Honestly, at what point of compression is there really a discernible difference between quality? 256kps seems just fine to me and newer technologies are keeping the file sizes low (although, that doesn't really seem to be much of a concern nowadays). I understand that lossless is the be-all-end-all for audiophiles, but when will it just become trivial? It seems like it already is to me.
- kipmartin, on 02/26/2008, -3/+9you arent buying a song. you are paying a licensing fee to allow use of the song. read what you say yes to on a EULA. secondly, its still theft when you grab a song from TPB. you may justify it, but it takes money out of my pocket when i see one of my works on TPB.
- eViL2, on 02/26/2008, -2/+8I cant believe you said that, no one uses limewire anymore.
- Niightwitch, on 02/26/2008, -1/+7Was "freinds" misspelled for the lulz too?
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