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Seems like incentive to illegally download
Hmm, Real gives you 25 free songs that you can only do limited things with. How much you want to bet that this will only lead to Real subscribers using this as a sampling method followed by illegal downloads of unrestricted mp3's?

This seems to be the way things are going as more and more users of online music stores are finding themselves more and more frustrated with the limitations put on them by DRM. Factor that in with the excessive prices charged by online music stores and you have an industry that is potentially killing itself off before it ever really gets going. A nice analysis of this can be found here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4474143.stm
Posted by: tic swayback   Posted on: 04/26/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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As much as I love my iPod and iTunes  BitTwiddler | 04/26/05
Well as long as you remember  DebianDog | 04/26/05
Napster downside  alterego_z | 04/26/05
iTunes downside..  d_jedi | 04/26/05
d_jedi posts  TheCrow_z | 04/26/05
Nice idea, but....  tic swayback | 04/26/05
Personally..  d_jedi | 04/26/05
Canada signed onto the DCMA/RIAA bandwagon  osreinstall | 04/26/05
Here are some links  osreinstall | 04/26/05
DMCA is a very different beast  tic swayback | 04/26/05
This is what Canada industry is saying  osreinstall | 04/26/05
More clarification  osreinstall | 04/26/05
One reason it won't happen in Canada  voska | 04/27/05
Oh yeah and the French just banned DVD DRM  voska | 04/27/05
What the CRIA wants versus what they'll really get  tic swayback | 04/27/05
Renting rather than buying  tic swayback | 04/26/05
Funny ?  jacrav | 04/26/05
W32codecs  Real World | 04/26/05
Protected WMA certainly does not work on Macs  tic swayback | 04/26/05
WMA and MS DRM work fine on Linux and Mac  rg807 | 04/26/05
No one has, however  tic swayback | 04/27/05
25 free songs?  d_jedi | 04/26/05
Seems like incentive to illegally download  tic swayback | 04/26/05
Real's past spyware means that I will never allow them on my PC.  JonathonDoe | 04/27/05
Real[Bad]!!! With Napster now.  ZenWarrior | 04/27/05

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