[aom3]

Major record label EMI has released more DRM-free music. This time, it's with Wal-Mart's popular online music store. The music will be released at a bitrate of 256 kbps and the price will be 94 cents per track and $9.22 per album.


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[shadman]

Originally Posted by aom3

Major record label EMI has released more DRM-free music. This time, it's with Wal-Mart's popular online music store. The music will be released at a bitrate of 256 kbps and the price will be 94 cents per track and $9.22 per album.


Read On:
Slyck News - Wal-Mart Launches DRM Free Music

Thats great that Wal-Mart has launched drm free music. is the 256 bitrate standard or will they have other options. 9.22 an album is not bad though. i hope that it works out for them and this may encourage other companies to do the same.

i read somewhere that steve jobs was also looking into releasing some dmr free music on itunes...time will tell.

thanks for the post.

chad

[Nightfly]

Originally Posted by shadman

Thats great that Wal-Mart has launched drm free music. is the 256 bitrate standard or will they have other options. 9.22 an album is not bad though. i hope that it works out for them and this may encourage other companies to do the same.

i read somewhere that steve jobs was also looking into releasing some dmr free music on itunes...time will tell.

thanks for the post.

chad

It is a step in the right direction and finally there is competition
which is good for us all..I hope that they have a international
policy for all to use. They would really have something going
on if they offered down-loadable inserts...then maybe it would
be worth 9.22 ...and we also have to see their catalog to see
if they are true competitors.

[shadman]

Originally Posted by Nightfly

It is a step in the right direction and finally there is competition
which is good for us all..I hope that they have a international
policy for all to use. They would really have something going
on if they offered down-loadable inserts...then maybe it would
be worth 9.22 ...and we also have to see their catalog to see
if they are true competitors.

hello,
i read in one of Bruno's post that Wallyworld will only offer the service in the lower 48 states. one would not be able to download if you lived outside the states. that really is to bad. Bruno claims in Italy for a new release the price is around 25-29 dollars. i can see why the online music sites are so popular. i would never pay 30 bucks for a new release, but i guess if your desperate!

thanks for the post,
chad

[Nightfly]

Originally Posted by shadman

hello,
i read in one of Bruno's post that Wallyworld will only offer the service in the lower 48 states. one would not be able to download if you lived outside the states. that really is to bad. Bruno claims in Italy for a new release the price is around 25-29 dollars. i can see why the online music sites are so popular. i would never pay 30 bucks for a new release, but i guess if your desperate!

thanks for the post,
chad

As I told Bruno:
If fellow members here are not allowed in .. I don't want in either..

[sleeper]

Originally Posted by aom3

Major record label EMI has released more DRM-free music. This time, it's with Wal-Mart's popular online music store. The music will be released at a bitrate of 256 kbps and the price will be 94 cents per track and $9.22 per album.


Read On:
Slyck News - Wal-Mart Launches DRM Free Music

Yep. I posted that yesterday, albeit in a different part of the forum.
http://www.aom3.org/forum/legality/9...-concerns.html

[chris.music1]

I have to say, this may be good news, but in the long term, I still trust AOM3 over Walmart.

I am sure that if we start giving money to Walmart, or any of the other big western companies, in time, they will want to complicate things/make things more expensive/make life harder.

mp3sparks is good old fashioned, get what you pay for. Trustworthy, excellent service, cheap. Western companies simply don't work like that anymore/if they ever did.

Surely, we are all aware of that concept by now? You get two of the three if you're lucky.

Call me a sinick (sinique/sinik?/bad speller...) but no western company, DRM or DRM free, will ever give us the service that mp3sparks give us, and I certainly wouldn't swap them for Walmart.

Keep the 'online revolution', whatever you want to call it going, until either they or we, come crawling on our knees back to the system. (In the end, it'll most likely be us. It is easy to think that the www is ours, was created by us, international community, the people, in our bedrooms, at work, where ever, but it was the major capitalist industries, mainly western, who created it, and they will only be financially drained so far, before they create a new system.)

This is a golden period. Download and support mp3sparks until you fear they will come after you with the hand of law. One day, if the system loses to much, none of this will exist. Remember who created this computer system. The system.

You alone will not defeat it!

[chris.music1]

At this point, I must add it's early morning, and I went off the point of DRM free music. For which I apologise.

I will agree and speak positively that I think it's good that they offer this service though.

I guess the anti-DRM campaign is winning. I guess the online community are being heard.

I support this.

The above post may answer a wider question of whether DRM free music alone is good enough. For me, it isn't. I would like to see Russian prices, services, trustworthyness and fairness accross all western music shops/companies in general.

As I say, this is probably a post for another wall. What should I call it?

Anti DRM & Anti expensive record companies movement???

All the best.

hmph

[Nightfly]

Originally Posted by chris.music1

At this point, I must add it's early morning, and I went off the point of DRM free music. For which I apologise.

I will agree and speak positively that I think it's good that they offer this service though.

I guess the anti-DRM campaign is winning. I guess the online community are being heard.

I support this.

The above post may answer a wider question of whether DRM free music alone is good enough. For me, it isn't. I would like to see Russian prices, services, trustworthyness and fairness accross all western music shops/companies in general.

As I say, this is probably a post for another wall. What should I call it?

Anti DRM & Anti expensive record companies movement???

All the best.




hmph

Chris,

Thanks for both of your insightful posts...

[sleeper]

Originally Posted by chris.music1

I have to say, this may be good news, but in the long term, I still trust AOM3 over Walmart.

I am sure that if we start giving money to Walmart, or any of the other big western companies, in time, they will want to complicate things/make things more expensive/make life harder.

mp3sparks is good old fashioned, get what you pay for. Trustworthy, excellent service, cheap. Western companies simply don't work like that anymore/if they ever did.

Surely, we are all aware of that concept by now? You get two of the three if you're lucky.

Call me a sinick (sinique/sinik?/bad speller...) but no western company, DRM or DRM free, will ever give us the service that mp3sparks give us, and I certainly wouldn't swap them for Walmart.

Keep the 'online revolution', whatever you want to call it going, until either they or we, come crawling on our knees back to the system. (In the end, it'll most likely be us. It is easy to think that the www is ours, was created by us, international community, the people, in our bedrooms, at work, where ever, but it was the major capitalist industries, mainly western, who created it, and they will only be financially drained so far, before they create a new system.)

This is a golden period. Download and support mp3sparks until you fear they will come after you with the hand of law. One day, if the system loses to much, none of this will exist. Remember who created this computer system. The system.

You alone will not defeat it!

It's CYNIC i believe

but other than that i tend to agree...