Review of Amazon's DRM-Less Music Download Store

fdmendez writes to tell us that he had a chance to check out Amazon's DRM-less music download store that was recently released as a beta trial. "Amazon one-ups the iTunes store in every way except for popularity. Never once did I find an album to be more expensive on the Amazon store in comparison to the iTunes store. The download experience was pleasant, and the lack of DRM truly makes it YOUR music. I don't know of any other download service that could top the Amazon MP3 store."

Obligitory

[El_Smack]

"I don't know of any other download service that could top the Amazon MP3 store."

Bittorrent?

Missing something?

[Anonymous Coward]

"the lack of DRM truly makes it YOUR music"... and YOURS, and YOURS, and HIS, and HER, and THEIR.

Re:iPod sync?

[stoolpigeon]

don't worry - you don't appear as an Apple fanboy.
 
You appear as an idiot. If the distinction is meaningful is up to you.

Re:I Can Think Of A Better One

[Constantine XVI]

Amazon does sell .cdas of music. It's DRM-free too. Thing is, it takes forever to download, but you get a free frisbee and storage case for the trouble.

I just downloaded a tune...

[Anonymous Coward]

and found your credit card number in it.

Re:I do...

[Lussarn]

what's the point of paying for mp3's you wont legally own?

What's the point of legally owning an mp3?

Re:I tried it out yesterday

[larry bagina]

I wish I'd heard about this earlier!

It's only been available since yesterday.

Wait wait wait...I'm confused

[db32]

Are we still supposed to loathe Amazon for their patent nonsense with crap like the 1-click issue? I mean...I thought we weren't supposed to buy from them and support evil patent trolls. But now, we are supposed to buy from them to show support for non DRM music stores. But we aren't supposed to buy from Apple anyways because of their iPhone shenanagins. But we are supposed to love Apple because its trendy. I am so confused. Will someone please deconflict the groupthink so I know if I'm allowed to buy non-DRM (good) music from Amazon (bad) instead of DRM music (bad) from Apple (both) or if I am supposed to loathe all of the RIAA music and not buy DRM or non-DRM music from any source if it is RIAA owned. What about indie music with DRM? Where does that fit in? God, someone please help... All I know for sure is the MS music store is 100% evil and the Zune will eat your soul.

Re:iPod sync?

[stoolpigeon]

my karma will get beat up over it - but that's life here on the dot. i wonder if every single piece of music on his ipod got there through something that 'synced' to it. apparently he can't listen to any music on the device if it doesn't have that ability built into it. if you just dropped a boat load of mp3s on his machine, into some directory, he'd never listen to them since you didn't sync them to his ipod.

Re:BZZZZT

[mycroft822]

Dude, they were doing you a favor by not letting you buy it. Elton John? Seriously?

That's exciting.

[exp(pi*sqrt(163))]

> fdmendez writes to tell us that he had a chance to check out Amazon's DRM-less music download store

Well bully for him.

Re:Obligitory

[ymgve]

Plenty of Sony 'compact discs bought at retail' are guaranteed to give you a root-kit.
And that technology was in use two years ago - I can only imagine what they are putting on retail CDs now.

It's even worse now. They've started putting Britney Spears on them again.