Comments on: Is the iTunes Music Store In Trouble?

By: huxley

huxley — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 23:24:29 +0000

It’s worse than that, your music player has to be hooked up once or so a month to a computer that is connected to the Net so it can call home and confirm you’ve paid your subscription fee. If you don’t connect it, then you lose access to all your subscribed songs.

By: transgeek

transgeek — Wed, 22 Dec 2004 03:13:16 +0000

What they don’t tell you about their subscription model is that you have to keep paying them forever or “all” your music ceases to work. If everyone wanted to “rent” music, Napster & others would be dominating the market.

They are not!

I want to buy music and then burn it to a CD, so that it’s “mine”. I think most people feel this way, so I think Apple has nothing to worry about. Human beings like to collect things, not “rent” things. That’s why we buy so many DVD’s, we want to “own”!

By: Josh Pigford

Josh Pigford — Tue, 21 Dec 2004 21:50:55 +0000

You can’t do with it as you like. It must either remain on your computer or on a portable player that supports Microsofts technology.

By: nick santilli

nick santilli — Tue, 21 Dec 2004 20:55:00 +0000

hmmmm,
So is it MS’s music tech DRM’d to the max or do the subscribers get access to it to do as they like? (Can they burn cd’s, convert to different formats, etc, etc?)

I think I’d rather own my music, and with the addition of downloadable album pamphlets in pdf format, I think I’m happy with that.

Interesting ideas though.