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Great post. This is very exciting news.
Unfortunately you contradicted yourself when you said:
"... the only way to buy digital music for the iPod was from Apple.)
Then two paragraphs later:
"... the chance to sell songs as plain, unrestricted MP3s, which are iPoddable."
In fact, the latter is correct — regular MP3s purchased from Amazon or eMusic play just fine on the iPod (and always have).
Kudos to the other big labels for following Apple and EMI into the no DRM world, but a big raspberry to their ongoing insistence on dictating the terms by which I may or may not give them MY money.
If you are going to make your tracks available with no DRM, then make them available, goddammit. If I like Amazon's store better, then I will buy music there. If I like iTunes music store better, I should be able to buy what I want there. Quit trying to force me to chase the music all over the internet.
If the industry doesn't like the power that Apple and iTunes music store have, it's their own damn fault. If they hadn't been such a pack of tar pit bound mammoths, they wouldn't have become mired. But even now they insist on controlling my purchasing habits, even as the tar fills their lungs; glub, glurk, glub.
Hey, record industry. I am not a pirate! I want to give you some money. That's all. WHY DO YOU INSIST ON MAKING IT SO HARD TO DO THAT!?!
I mean, WTF?
sounds like a payoff
