Report: Amazon considering digital music service

Company is in talks with four firms about licensing content for subscription music service, says newspaper.

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[Earl Benser]

Excellent idea....

Swamp the Internet with subscription music options.
....Amazon,.Google, AOL, Yahoo, Napster, ReaL Microsoft,
Listen.com, etc., etc., etc..

How many sources for any given song can result? How about a
price war? Always a chance for novel features.

And in a year or two, we'll have plenty of dead concepts littering
the floor.

[R. U. Sirius]

RIAA Sez "backups of CD's is not Fair Use"

So here's the picture:

* Rent your music from a Jackson Pollock compendium of subscription services.

* Buy from iTunes, where you own, but you have to burn a CD to get past the DRM, but represents the one growth area in music.

* Buy a CD that is infested with rootkit viruses.

On top of all that, now the RIAA says that backing up your CD's is NOT fair use. Yes, that is what they have said:

<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060215-6190.html" target="_newWindow">http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060215-6190.html</a>

Folks, get a clue. They're trying to force us into a model where we pay multiple times for the same content in different formats, and end up owning nothing.

Makes me yearn for the days of LP records.

[freq]

netradio.com... spinner.com aka thedj

its a good move considering their retail roots and cdnow.. partnering with Real would be wise though... i think they have that burn a cd in the mail product from launch.com... plus their platform is the definitive best and most widely supported.. though I bet Rhapsody will be a problem to deal with though.. but really.. real still sells servers.. its got to be an amazon listening experience....

amazon could do to music what it has done to books... very good idea.. through in live performances to boot

netradio.com has struggled through the years and spinner got lucky with yahoo..

mob driven charity models arent the way... sure its grass roots and all but it quickly goes currupt... just listen to all the abusers with thier Q-tips.... yuk!