pippin wrote: > No, I think you got that one wrong. > And who would those "competitors delivering DRM free options" be? Amazon > et al only cam along much later. They _announced_ their services pretty > early, claiming to do away with DRM but of the big libraries actually > being _available_ iTunes was the first one going DRM free, I believe. > Initially Apple only offered it (as "iTunes +") with EMI and even when > they later added other label they originally charged an "upgrade fee" if > you wanted to convert your DRM'ed files but still I'm pretty sure for > offerings with a significant catalog behind them there were no DRM free > alternatives on the market at that time.
Well, emusic.com comes to mind (established in 1998). I remember paying for a fixed monthly fee for unlimited downloads (drm-free), it had a great collection of alternative stuff and also non-music (e.g. stand up comedy) tracks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ igufi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58508 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96191 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
