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Gadgets: Apples Don't Grow In The Amazon
Posted September 25, 2007 9:31 AM
Sick of paying $1.29 a song? Tired of the monopoly Apple has on online music purchasing? Well guys, be weary no more! Amazon.com just released its public beta version for music downloads that offers DRM-free music at competitive prices ranging from $.89 to $.99, though about half of them are solid at $.89, and for $8.99 you guys can get any of the top 100 albums. All in all there are over two million songs from more than 180,000 artists and 20,000 labels. Yea sweet deal, and finally some competition for Apple.
This is just what we all need. Apple was the first to get the ball rolling with EMI, but completely forgoing the copy protection for music sold on iTunes was apparently too hard. Amazon's music store is completely DRM-free and consists only of MP3 files. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made a statement concerning the site saying, "our MP3-only strategy means all the music that customers buy on Amazon is always DRM-free and plays on any device." So far though EMI is the only major label offering DRM-free tracks, aside from a limited amount of protection free music from Universal Music Group, which means a lot of music is still unavailable. Steve Jobs has been pressuring the labels to offer protection free files of higher quality on the iTunes store but so far there's no cigar, in fact Universal excluded iTunes from its offer. Hopefully Amazon can grab those deals first and continue to offer them at lower prices making it easier for us guys to get our music rape-free. Damn the Steve Jobs Empire. I love my iPod.
The guyville title for this video is Amazon vs. Apple.
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