Bit Torrent still free, so who gives a shiat.

"working on an one music subscription service" which would cost between €6 to €8 per month (about $9 to $12), and provide access to the entire Sony BMG music catalog.

Schmidt-Holtz goes on to say that customers could own "some songs" even after the subscription was canceled. Oh, and unlike downloads from the Apple store, the music will play on " all digital players, including Apple's iPod."

DRM-free, baby. The service launches later this year.

Monthly online music access subscription, and DRM-free? Does not compute...

And 10 bucks a month for the Sony catalog only? No thanks...

FTA:

A. "customers could own "some songs" even after the subscription was canceled."

B. "DRM-free, baby"

Now, in my head, A and B cannot happen at the same time. You still have the MP3s but they become illegal once you stop subscribing? Well... Some of them become illegal.

C. "unlike downloads from the Apple store, the music will play on all digital players, including Apple's iPod."

...and Point C is just good to hear.

Not that I'm always thrilled with iTunes, but Sony can EABOD. Even if I was interested in their shiatty catalog, I'm never trusting them again after that malware fiasco.

Sony sucks.
Dont ever forget the root kit.
fark them - forever and always.

This should have happened ten years ago, instead of suing Napster in to oblivion they should have taken the billion dollar settlement and made downloading work. Now they are doing what everyone else said they should and they are looking rather stupid.

Morons.

Trust Sony?


Not gonna happen?

meekychuppet: This should have happened ten years ago, instead of suing Napster in to oblivion they should have taken the billion dollar settlement and made downloading work. Now they are doing what everyone else said they should and they are looking rather stupid.

Morons.

Exactly. This would be brilliant thinking in 2000. Now it's like an admission of defeat.

Bukharin: Sony sucks.
Dont ever forget the root kit.
fark them - forever and always.

I tried to use Sonic Stage once. It constantly crashed my computer, took over an hour to download an album, and would not burn an MP3 CD even though it was one of the options. To deal with their bullshat "Atrac3" format that nothing else can use, I had to burn a data CD, rip that back onto the computer, and then enter all the metadata myself. Total time: 2.5 hours. I've used iTunes as well as Zune, and both are leaps and bounds ahead of it. Total time to download an album, complete with metadata: less than 10 minutes.

Sony can EABOD.

b-b-b-b-b-but BlueRay!

Unless DRM means Decent Reputable Multinational there is no way in hell anything from Sony will be DRM free.

New version MediaMonkey just hit that has support for the new generation of iPods/iPhones.

I will *never* go back to shiatty iTunes.

/never

Sony can go fark itself. How the hell can they expect you to trust them in any way, shape or form after half the shiat they've pulled?

DRM free my arse, considering you've been busted not once ("oh someone was stupid") but twice ("We didn't think you'd find it again!") trying to install farking rootkits on peoples machines!

They have no idea how the real world works, so they can get the fark out of it.

Schmidt-Holtz goes on to say that customers could own "some songs" even after the subscription was canceled.

Assclown. Totally out of touch with reality.

I love Sony. OOOOF...The shuttle just landed and two sonic booms almost made me shiat my pants. Anyway, as I was saying, I love Sony products. From my home theater receiver, to my F707 digital camera, and my a700 dSLR. Furthermore, I don't give a damn about DRM and rootkits, because if you know what you're doing, neither one of those two are a problem.