Yes, I know, it’s way easy to buy music from iTunes. Just click, buy, download. Well, it’s just about that easy with AmazonMP3, too, but they’ve got something going for them that iTunes doesn’t.
What might that be, you ask? I’ll tell you.
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No DRM.
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You’re thinking, “uh, Shawn… what’s DRM?” DRM stands for Digital Rights Management. It’s essentially a digital fingerprint that limits where and how you can play your music. Yes, the music you purchased. The music you own.
AmazonMP3 downloads have no DRM. So, you can buy your music and play that music anywhere. In iTunes, in Windows Media Player, on your desktop PC, your Windows Vista laptop, your MacBook, your iMac and everything in between.
iTunes is already offering some MP3’s without DRM (for $1.29 each) while AmazonMP3’s MP3’s average $.89 each and all of their tracks are DRM-free.
You can bet your boots I’m done buying from iTunes and will purchase all future albums and singles from AmazonMP3.
That is, until iTunes wises up and removes DRM from their MP3’s, too.
So, in closing; no DRM is good.
What are you waiting for? Go buy something.
Thanks for the heads up CrunchGear.
amazonmp3, itunes, drm, digital rights management, shawnw
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