Comments on: DRM-free MP3 downloads from Amazon

By: Boris

Boris — Fri, 02 May 2008 21:15:43 +0000

That’s interesting!

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Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:40:57 +0000

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By: sil

sil — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:13:54 +0000

Jay: there’s no equal trading agreement between the US and the UK like there is across the EU. The record companies are indeed paranoid capitalist control freaks, but they’re perfectly allowed to only sell items in one country and not others. Note that the record companies in the US and the record companies in the UK are not necessarily the same thing; a band may be signed to one label in America and a different one in Europe. I like the idea of the global economy, but we ain’t there yet.

By: Jay

Jay — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:49:15 +0000

Why can UK Amazon customers purchase mp3s from Amazon .com, is it legal or technical reasons? Surely it’s against some kind of trading law to discriminate against us in such a way. I bet it’s got something to do with the paranoid, capitalist, control freak record companies

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:02:57 +0000

Well, perhaps Amazon gives a great service. Or it will be better shortly.

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WRC Torrent Blog»Blog Archive » DRM-free MP3 downloads from Amazon — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:08:17 +0000

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By: Matt Lee

Matt Lee — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 17:07:12 +0000

Try eMusic - 100 free downloads in the trial, okay, you have to give them some basic details, but they have a download manager that works on GNU/Linux, and is free software, and their tracks are DRM free.

http://www.emusic.com/ge

By: BrokenCrystal

BrokenCrystal — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:56:49 +0000

“Bloody Americans keep all the good stuff.”

I am an American. Thank God I am not bloody. I think that would be a bad situation. Sorry, I love the “other” English language and the different use for words that would make absolutely no sense if used here in the USA. BTW: We have many of them here too.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:20:01 +0000

Denied. When I first saw your post, I was ready to leap straight on there and buy something, just to encourage them to keep it going. The Amazon FAQ says they’re working on a Linux downloading tool. Maybe then I can go and re-buy the music I already bought from Apple.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:29:14 +0000

Of course, if it does come to the UK, it will be more than 50p. I’m guessing 99p (as £1 is one of the quantum levels of pricing) so will still pass your test.