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From Chris Sprigman's article at Findlaw (link above)
Enter Apple Computer's new iTunes Music Store - a new and improved legal download service. It allows you to buy (not just "rent") music for $.99 per song, or $10.00 per album - significantly cheaper than the cost of a typical CD. Songs bought can be downloaded to a Mac or Apple iPod portable music player, or burned onto a CD.
In its first week in business, Apple sold more than one million songs - despite the fact that the iTunes service is available only to users of Apple computers, which have less than 4 percent share of the U.S. market. Meanwhile, Apple has announced that it is adding additional music to its library, and will introduce a version of its service for Windows machines by year-end.
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An interesting initiative, though I have to say I prefer the real deal, with official packaging and booklets and similar. I doubt it will really shut up the illegal circuit, but at least it'll make one of the most often heard excuses to resort to illegal music without ever buying any CD's - "CD's are too expensive so I download 20 GB's of music a month, because the record industry is like, evil and stuff" - obsolete and powerless, more or less.
[ 05-10-2003, 06:43 AM: Message edited by: Grojlach ]