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[andrewducker]

EMI starts selling non-DRM downloads. Which is _great_ news if they weren't putting the price up by 30% at the same time. And only making them available in AAC format. And only at 256kbps. Which means it'll take up twice as much space on my MP3 player. I don't actually _want_ them that high quality when it means I only get half as many songs to carry around with me. It's a plot, I tells ya, a plot to make us all go out and buy bigger iPods!

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[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

The price is only going up for individual tracks; per-album price is the same. My view is it's still great news. More precisely, it's that I might now become an iTunes customer for the first time.

[andrewducker]

Oh, absolutely, it is great.

To me it's largely great because it means the opening up of music sales, and a sea-change in the way it's sold. I'll be watching the market in fascination for the next while.