The point is that until now, whenever you've bought some music, you've been able to play it pretty much how you wanted to. You buy a CD and you can play it at home, in your car's hi-fi, take it around to a friend's house and listen to it there, copy it onto your iPod, computer, or whatever.In the future, these freedoms will likely disappear. You buy a song on one computer and it won't play on another. You buy a whole bunch of songs on iTunes for your iPod, and then when you switch to a different music player in a few years time you have to buy all the music again because the stuff you bought won't work on your next music player.Even music bought at Microsoft's on-line music store won't play on Microsoft's new music player: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6120272.stm
The point is that until now, whenever you've bought some music, you've been able to play it pretty much how you wanted to. You buy a CD and you can play it at home, in your car's hi-fi, take it around to a friend's house and listen to it there, copy it onto your iPod, computer, or whatever.In the future, these freedoms will likely disappear. You buy a song on one computer and it won't play on another. You buy a whole bunch of songs on iTunes for your iPod, and then when you switch to a different music player in a few years time you have to buy all the music again because the stuff you bought won't work on your next music player.Even music bought at Microsoft's on-line music store won't play on Microsoft's new music player: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6120272.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6120272.stm
Thursday, October 5, 2006 at 12:12AM
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I don't get it.....
I don't get it.....
The point is that until now, whenever you've bought some music, you've been able to play it pretty much how you wanted to. You buy a CD and you can play it at home, in your car's hi-fi, take it around to a friend's house and listen to it there, copy it onto your iPod, computer, or whatever.In the future, these freedoms will likely disappear. You buy a song on one computer and it won't play on another. You buy a whole bunch of songs on iTunes for your iPod, and then when you switch to a different music player in a few years time you have to buy all the music again because the stuff you bought won't work on your next music player.Even music bought at Microsoft's on-line music store won't play on Microsoft's new music player: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6120272.stm
The point is that until now, whenever you've bought some music, you've been able to play it pretty much how you wanted to. You buy a CD and you can play it at home, in your car's hi-fi, take it around to a friend's house and listen to it there, copy it onto your iPod, computer, or whatever.In the future, these freedoms will likely disappear. You buy a song on one computer and it won't play on another. You buy a whole bunch of songs on iTunes for your iPod, and then when you switch to a different music player in a few years time you have to buy all the music again because the stuff you bought won't work on your next music player.Even music bought at Microsoft's on-line music store won't play on Microsoft's new music player: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6120272.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6120272.stm