The reason they use the words ‘buy’/’sell’, is to enable them to fetch a much higher price. When you buy a a chocolate bar from a store, you have bought it, id est, you own it, and may do with it as you like. The same however cannot be said for music.

There is a clear distinction between the two, it’s simply not apparent because big business attempts to conceal it.

Greed! Both Jobs and the RIAA are in this to make money, and they both realized that using DRM and subscription services are a sure fire way to make as much money as they can on the music that they sell.

Sell, that is a big word for four little letters. Sell means that you bought a product from a person and the person shouldn’t care how you use the product. Sell means that the person who had the product can’t get the product back by sabatoging the product simply because they didn’t like how you use the product. Finally, sell means that there are no strings attached to the product.

Both Jobs and the RIAA are putting strings on digital music sales via DRM and locking iTunes sales to only play on the iPod.

Jobs is lying about being an anti-DRM champion if even he won’t allow sales from his own store to be played on third-party mp3 players.

The RIAA always been and always will be lying cheating scum for suing anyone who doesn’t conform to their draconian business model, and getting congress to pass laws that make 90% of americans criminals.

My point is that if the RIAA is so bound up in their control over digital music sales right now, what do you think they would do if they insist on subscription fees on top of their sales?

Perhaps most people want to own their music but when the just say
“People want to own their music,” they assume that that’s how everyone feels.

I don’t. I rarely buy music. i “rent” I like it that way. even if i am in the minority i prefer subscription to buying and even prefer subscription to p2p

free and legal subscription like spiral frog is good to. i have tried the canadian preview.