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[Warning: This post contains non-flattering references to Steve Jobs. Sensitive iPuds might want to avoid reading further]

I have some sad news for you: You don't "own" the music you paid for. Go read your license agreement. If you really owned the music you paid for you will be able to turn around and legally sell it again as if it was your own, which you can't, since you never really owned it to begin with. Just because His Steveness tells you "own" it doesn't mean you actually do. Psych. The only thing you "own" is the right to listen to the music. So how exactly is that different then?

And I guess you missed the part about the 10 songs you get to "own" each month. So for $15 a month, you not only get to "own" 10 songs, but you also get to listen to as many songs as you can, for as long as you can, in full quality and full length. With a Zune pass, when you browse the online music catalog and decide to listen to any of the online songs, you stream the full length, full quality song, not the 30 second, mono, low quality junk His Highness allows you to hear. I don't understand how you can pay for a song when all you have to go on initially is a 30 second, low quality mono clip. It is things like this that people just don't realize. Kinda like people that don't have TiVo. No matter how many times you explain it to them, the only time they finally get it is when they get a TiVo themselves.

So, can you explain to me what exactly it is about "owning" a song that is so much better than a subscription song? What exactly can you do with that song that I can't with my songs? Oh yea, burning to a CD. Uhm, the last time I wanted to do that was, let's see, years ago.

Posted by: Qbt   Posted on: 11/22/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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