Wednesday, January 07, 2009

iTunes vs Amazon MP3

My first ever blog post was about the iPod shuffle I bought and some thought about iTunes. I refued then (and continued) to buy music that had DRM. With no way to do this in iTunes, I used bittorrent to illegitimately acquire music.

Last year Amazon.com started an mp3 store with DRM free. From then on, they have been my choise to acquire music. It's not like I get a lot of music, I have 20 songs from them, some free, from amazon mp3 in about a year since I discovered it.

At Macworld 2009, Apple announce that iTunes would be expanding their DRM free iTunes+ program to eventually have their entire collection available DRM free.

I think I will start using iTunes as my primary source with Amazon as a backup. Exciting times for music fans.

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