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Unlimited downloads are now PC
by Laughing Boy at 12:55 am EDT, Jul 22, 2003

] With the record labels at war with online song swappers,
] PC users who wanted to go straight and do the right thing
] had no inexpensive, easy-to-use way to buy songs
] legitimately until today.
]
] Online retailer Buy.com, which sells computers, books,
] gadgets, CDs and DVDs, adds downloads to its mix today.
] BuyMusic.com will stock 350,000 songs for as little as 79
] cents each, though most sell for 99 cents or $1.19. All
] can be transferred to portables or burned to CDs.

Apple just missed their launch window for iTunes on the PC...

Laughing Boy


Unlimited downloads are now PC
by Dementia at 8:27 pm EDT, Jul 23, 2003

] With the record labels at war with online song swappers,
] PC users who wanted to go straight and do the right thing
] had no inexpensive, easy-to-use way to buy songs
] legitimately until today.
]
] Online retailer Buy.com, which sells computers, books,
] gadgets, CDs and DVDs, adds downloads to its mix today.
] BuyMusic.com will stock 350,000 songs for as little as 79
] cents each, though most sell for 99 cents or $1.19. All
] can be transferred to portables or burned to CDs.

But I hear the encryption scheme sucks, and if you make a coaster with Windows Media Player, which is what you have to use if you're not doing anything 'illegal' to the data you receive, you've used up one of your optional burns for that track. All in all it needs some work to be more user friendly.


 
 
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