Sony BMG Confirms DRM Free Music
Posted by EL1TE on 07 January 2008 - 19:37 · 13 comments & 9118 views
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#1 Posted by Mathachew on 07 Jan 2008 - 19:39
- Sony, bang your head continually and repeat after me:
Stupid, stupid, stupid!
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#2 Posted by Hell-In-A-Handbasket on 07 Jan 2008 - 19:55
- this little plastic card,,, is more easily known as the CD
would be easier to just get the CD then rip it to computer then keep the CD for backup -
#2.1 Posted by fergiej on 07 Jan 2008 - 21:21
- Yea, right. So, I have to go to the music store to buy this card thingy. I go home, essentially empty handed, go to the PC where i should have started in the first place and download what i could have already ripped from the CD I just bought at the store where I could have gotten a multi-pass card.....and on and on it goes.
So, if 9 songs out of 10 suck, too bad, you still have to but the whole CD anyway. leave it to Sony to bugger the whole deal. What a ripoff. -
#2.2 Posted by Hell-In-A-Handbasket on 07 Jan 2008 - 21:28
- agreed, thats why this is patheticQuote - (fergiej said @ #2.1)Yea, right. So, I have to go to the music store to buy this card thingy. I go home, essentially empty handed, go to the PC where i should have started in the first place and download what i could have already ripped from the CD I just bought at the store where I could have gotten a multi-pass card.....and on and on it goes.
So, if 9 songs out of 10 suck, too bad, you still have to but the whole CD anyway. leave it to Sony to bugger the whole deal. What a ripoff.
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#3 Posted by n_K on 07 Jan 2008 - 19:59
- oh sony, for the company trying to push blu-ray; your failing miserbly
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#4 Posted by +shakey_snake on 07 Jan 2008 - 20:24
<- says it all
Last edited by shakey_snake on 07 Jan 2008 - 20:27
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#5 Posted by Ikshaar on 07 Jan 2008 - 21:27
- OMG... what kind of idiot thought of that !!! Don't those people have any common sense to realize that buyers of digital music will never go through that hassle.
I take bets that this will be among the worst business decision of 2008
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#6 Posted by +Shadrack on 07 Jan 2008 - 21:52
- I predict that this won't be popular and will not last long.
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#7 Posted by whocares78 on 08 Jan 2008 - 00:56
- hahah IDIOTS....
the whole point of the internet is to make it easier, this just adds a step and is a complete waste of time, do they want to end piracy or promote it.. this doesnt help their cause..just makes it less likely poeple will actually buy music..
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#8 Posted by einsteinbqat on 08 Jan 2008 - 01:49
- Sony really needs to get a clue!!!
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#9 Posted by +shawncm on 08 Jan 2008 - 04:45
- WTF? There's nothing right about this. It makes no sense at all. Why wouldn't I just buy the CD? I don't understand. Leave it to Sony to be completely out of touch with reality. I don't know how Blu-ray is gaining ground (and I probably don't want to know).
As we reported January 4, Sony BMG will become the last of the big four record companies to sell DRM free music, but with one very stupid catch. DRM free music from Sony BMG will be available from January 15 to those who purchase a plastic card called the “Platinum Music Pass” for the album they want from a retail store for $12.99. Buyers will then have to visit MusicPass.com and enter a code to download the DRM free album they selected in the store.
According to a USA Today report, Best Buy, Target and Fred’s will be first stores to offer the cards, with Winn-Dixie, Coconuts, FYE, Spec’s and Wherehouse to follow. When we first wrote about Sony BMG offering DRM free music we were positive on the move, and it still is a step forward, but forcing customers who want to buy digital music into a physical store where they will be forced to pick the album then and there, then go home to download it…WTF?. It’s nearly like Sony BMG is setting this up to fail, so they can then go back to only selling DRM infested music whilst saying that there wasn’t demand for DRM free music because this experiment failed.