WalMart Music Service?

[Archived in Entry, Mp3 Cd Player]

Dave on 2003/12/23:

  „But If you have a portable player that Media Player 9 will recognize (that does DRM encrypted WMA files) you can download them and take them anywhere. You can burn these songs to regular CDs (up to 10 times), but won't be able to burn a bunch of MP3s to be played on a simple MP3-CD player. Unless maybe you can find a way to convert encrypted WMAs to regular WMAs or even MP3s.“

http://www.greeblie.com/arch/014566.html - Cached

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Some slightly related:

Will Walmart's Entrance Signal Download Store Price Wars?

  „Of course, they know that they'll be losing money on this offering, but they see it as a loss leader to get people to buy other stuff at Walmart.com. So, if the price war continues, at what point will someone realize that, since they're just using the music as a loss leader anyway, they don't mind paying the $0.67 themselves. For example, Apple already says they're losing money on iTunes, but more than making it up on iPods.“

http://www.stargeek.com/item/45528.html - Cached

Digital Music sales

  „Walmart's leverage against the record industry comes from the fact that they are one of the largest retailers of CDs. If Walmart doesn't get a favorable price from the record industry to be profitable, they will no doubt hold those CDs hostage. They can stop selling CDs in their stores, or worse, sell them significantly below cost as a loss leader to draw foot traffic into their stores.“

http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2003/ robertson.html - Cached

A Family Friend Experiences DRM; The Loss of Digital Rights

  „To decode the WMA and turn it into MP3 would defeat the DRM (the MP3 won't honor the WMA DRM). This breaks the law under the DMCA's circumvention of copyright protection systems section (U.S. Code: Title 17, Chapter 12, Sec. 1201).“

Found at a page of brainsik, posted on 2003/12/01

http://more.theory.org/archives/000040.html - Cached

Squidly.com: 88 Cents

  „From what I've been able to read you CAN save them to a CD-RW without the DRM then read them back from the CD-RW and save them as WMV WITHOUT the copt protection. Now you have a WMV that is no longer copy protected with DRM and can be converted to MP3.“

http://www.squidly.com/archives/002802.html - Cached

Scoble Hates iPod.

  „WMA (and DRMed WMA) can be licensed by device makers and music players so that I could creat a player that plays tunes purchased from Napster. That's not the case in the Fairplay world currently. Until Apple's version of Fairplay can be licensed, WMA offers more "choice".“

Found at a page of Richard, posted on 2004/01/28

http://www.richardgiles.net/blog/archives/ 000500.html - Cached

Music Download Licenses' Impermanence

  „With 500,000 songs instantly at my beck and call, for $10 a month, it suddenly became really easy to explore new artists -- something that is incredibly expensive if you do it by buying CDs, and incredibly slow if you do it by using Kazaa. Most interestingly, I discovered that I didn't really care that much about not "owning" the songs; I was willing to trade enormous access to a massive library in exchange for not actually having them, physically, on my hard drive. That's partly because, as I noted, ownership these days isn't actually ownership....“

http://www.stargeek.com/item/105736.html - Cached

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