Comments on: Microsoft planning music subscription service

Feeling Apple's sting, software giant looks to diminish iTunes' influence with new "rental" plan.

[Bill Dautrive]

Pointless

I guess MS saw all the money that RIAA and Apple has sucked out of gullible fools and want a piece of the action. Whether you are renting it(what a joke), or buying it, MP3's are a ripoff.

Why would someone spend money on a restrictive lossy format?

Until someone has the guts to create a per song model, and offer uncompressed songs, why would anyone bite? Of course the music that the RIAA cares about would probably not ever see a system like this. The good news is that most of the music produced by major labels is trash anyway.

DRM is too restrictive, it circumvents fair use and abuses the consumer. Give me a reasonable price, uncompressed music and allow me to make multiple copies on whatever media I want(CD's, cassettes, whatever), and I would dive right in, and so would millions of others.

Most CD's released have one or two good songs(none in many cases) and the rest is mediocre at best filler. Buying CD's is like standing in line to get slapped. MP3's are fine to run on small gadgets and most PC's, but the faults are very noticable on semi-decent or better stereo equipment.

[Bill Dautrive]

Pointless

I guess MS saw all the money that RIAA and Apple has sucked out of gullible fools and want a piece of the action. Whether you are renting it(what a joke), or buying it, MP3's are a ripoff.

Why would someone spend money on a restrictive lossy format?

Until someone has the guts to create a per song model, and offer uncompressed songs, why would anyone bite? Of course the music that the RIAA cares about would probably not ever see a system like this. The good news is that most of the music produced by major labels is trash anyway.

DRM is too restrictive, it circumvents fair use and abuses the consumer. Give me a reasonable price, uncompressed music and allow me to make multiple copies on whatever media I want(CD's, cassettes, whatever), and I would dive right in, and so would millions of others.

Most CD's released have one or two good songs(none in many cases) and the rest is mediocre at best filler. Buying CD's is like standing in line to get slapped. MP3's are fine to run on small gadgets and most PC's, but the faults are very noticable on semi-decent or better stereo equipment.