Christopher Joel

I’m thinking it’s a little late.  Napster would have been revolutionary with this had it come out five years ago.  Now, they are just another in a series of stores like this and this isn’t really big news.  I’d still sell on there, of course, but it’s not that big of a deal in music [...]

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eMusic says they will sue Apple if they decide to try buffet-style access with the purchase of a premium-priced device.  One of the options Apple could offer in the future would be this: if you buy their premium device (like an iPhone with a crazy add-on fee), you get all the music you want from [...]

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I have never liked the idea of subscriptions for music.  You pay $x amount per month and you get to play all the music you want.  Stop paying, you’re outta luck.  It just seems mobster-ish to me, which is par for the course for record labels, but not for Apple.  So I’m a little queezy [...]

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I’ve tried Limewire once or twice.  I’ve gotten away from the whole file sharing thing, although I will be adding my own files there once we get them all finished up.  Anyway, I was pleasantly surprised to hear that Limewire has opened a legit, for-pay music store.  I’m stoked because they are working with mostly [...]

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