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Sony Makes a Play for Apple’s Online Music EmpirePosted on Jan 25, 2011
The seeming stranglehold that Apple’s iTunes has had on the online music market could be challenged, or at least loosened, by the imminent release of a competitor from Sony this quarter. Author, scholar and Truthdig contributor Aram Sinnreich tells Bloomberg TV’s Carol Massar how Sony’s service stacks up in this clip from Monday’s “In the Loop.” —KA “In the Loop” on Bloomberg TV: Advertisement Previous item: 'It Takes a Village to Unite the Most Divided People on Earth' Next item: Your Ticket to Davos New and Improved CommentsWe are launching a major overhaul of our comments section. In addition to more robust spam filtering and moderation, new features include the ability to rate other comments, sort how they are displayed and respond directly via e-mail or in a thread. Unfortunately, commenters will lose their existing Truthdig identities. It's a pain, we know, but on the plus side you will now be able to log in with a plethora of options, including Google, Twitter, Facebook and Disqus accounts. Before launching this system we spent months in discussion with our top commenters. We listened to the feedback and we hope you like what we've come up with. Please direct any problems or concerns to us via our contact page. |
By jltnol, January 26, 2011 at 2:53 pm Link to this comment
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FAIL!
This is pretty funny… yet another try at locking folks in to heavy DRM tracks
that go away once the server that validates your tracks go away.
Once the service dies, your songs die.
Why rent tracks that you can own?
Movies? Perhaps streaming is a good thing… music? It’s cheap enough to buy
that renting doesn’t make any sense.
The record companies will never match Apple eco system to delivery and
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