Comments on: Sony BMG dumps DRM — kinda http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14543 p2pnet.net - reader powered Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:43:11 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14543/comment-page-1#comment-267505 Reader's Write Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:13:27 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14543#comment-267505 There's a catch to the Sony/BMG MP3 offer: you cannot directly download tracks from Amazon.com, etc. You have to visit a retail store to buy a Platinum MusicPass ($12.99 suggested retail) which contains a secret code which allows people to buy MP3s from only 37 different albums available only on the Sony/BMG website. This is the wrong way to do DRM-free music, and shows just how out of touch with reality Sony/BMG are. There’s a catch to the Sony/BMG MP3 offer: you cannot directly download
tracks from Amazon.com, etc. You have to visit a retail store to buy a
Platinum MusicPass ($12.99 suggested retail) which contains a secret code
which allows people to buy MP3s from only 37 different albums available
only on the Sony/BMG website.

This is the wrong way to do DRM-free music, and shows just how out of
touch with reality Sony/BMG are.

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