Comments on: Sony BMG joins Nokia's unlimited music service

Nokia customers get access to any Sony BMG song for a year, and they get to keep the songs forever. Is this the music model of the future?

[paul.saulnier]

Useless without iPod support

At first, this seemed too good to be true, and ended up being exactly so. Music providers are eventually going to have to allow people to buy music at a reasonable price and let them use it on any device they wish. Not being able to transfer songs to iPods and other devices renders this nothing more than a gimmick. Nice try to lock users into Nokia handhelds though.

[catch23]

The lock is on Apples part

Nokia and others would love to make it available for the iPod. Steve Jobs won't allow it.

With any luck, services like this will break Apples crushing hold in the music player market, and 'Apples way or the highway' will go the way of the walkman

[badasscat]

"Comes With DRM"

What is it with C-Net falling in line with the DRM industry over the past few months? First everybody who uploads anything to YouTube is automatically a "pirate" and now we're all supposed to be thankful for this panacea of "free" music *forever*, except that oh, it's saddled with DRM that doesn't let you play it on anything but the device on which you bought it. How awesome is it to "own" music "for the rest of my life" that I can only play on a Nokia phone that supports the same DRM scheme? Where do I sign up??

[AppleSuxLeo]

AmazonMP3 and you really own it...

not renting their low bitrate , DRM`d , crap. And it plays on anything. Rented low quality DRM files ?
You have to be kidding !

[ReverendRob]

For Once, AppleSuxLeo Is Right

This is almost as bad as other subscription services, only now,
your music is married to your PHONE, which you pretty much
HAVE to change every 2 years. Amazon mp3s are universal, and
even Apple, who had DRM forced on them before, is moving
away from it (besides the fact that its hardware/software combo
allows for use of other, more standardized formats). The labels
STILL don't get it, and now they're dragging Nokia down with
them.

And of ALL the DRMs, Microsoft PlaysForSure? Even the Zune
can't read that!