Amazon Will Take On iPod With Its Own Music Player By SAUL HANSELL
Amazon.com is preparing to take on Apple Computer in digital music by introducing its own portable music player that would be linked to an online music service, according to several music industry executives involved with negotiations with Amazon.
Unlike Apple, which sells songs for 99 cents each, Amazon will offer a service that charges a monthly or annual fee to customers, who will have the right to fill up their music players with as many songs as they like, the executives said. When they stop paying the fee, the music on the player will be disabled. ... --- what a raw deal! it's like subscribing to a magazine, where if you stop subscribing, they come to your house and take the old copies away.
Of course, some hacker will figure out how to work around Amazon's format so that old tunes can't be taken away. -- Jim Devine / Bust Big Brother Bush!
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