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Sony Makes a Play for Apple’s Online Music Empire

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Posted on Jan 25, 2011
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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

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By jltnol, January 26, 2011 at 3:53 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
management.

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