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by Mike Masnick

Tue, Dec 2nd 2003 4:05pm





Is There Any Tech Company That Doesn't Plan To Offer An Online Music Store?

from the just-curious dept

What a world iTunes has created. If a company is in the technology space, it seems to be preparing to offer its own music download store. Next up to bat will be Hewlett Packard offering up downloadable songs for sale (with all the usual copy protection, of course). Does anyone want to start taking bets when all the various tech company run download music stores will start folding, be spun off, or start merging?

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    Mikester, Dec 2nd, 2003 @ 4:14pm

    Cross compare?

    Is there a website out yet that does a cross compare of all these downloadable music sites?
    It would be great to see at a glance each site's available formats, bitrates, summary of copy protection used (or not), etc.

    Any takers if there isn't one? ;-)

     

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    Oliver Wendell Jones, Dec 3rd, 2003 @ 6:43am

    My big fear

    My big fear is that in order to draw customers the latest round of music-download-startups will have to go to big name artists and groups and offer them huge sums of money if they allow their music to be available ONLY on their service.

    I'm not a big fan of Apple, but it seems they got iTunes pretty much right (or as right as we'll probably see for a while) so I don't see a need for 15 other competitors in the same space. I don't want to have to sign up for 16 different music accounts so I can get all the songs I want to hear.

     

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    gary, Dec 3rd, 2003 @ 7:12pm

    what's your definition of a tech company?

    Defining music providers as tech companies is the same as defining spammers as internet companies.

     

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