Buy.com Music Store (the mighty merging of 3 threads)

Okay, I just went to BMDC and ran into their "You must use the craptacular Win-fucking-blows and Internet Explorer" bullshit, and that pisses me off. It's one thing to say that I can't buy anything if I use a Mac, but to not even allow me on the site is just plain fucking discrimination and should be illegal.

I hope Apple sues the company into the ground, hopefully out in Death Valley so they'll burn up even when they're buried under 50 tons of red tape and paperwork.

Apple comes out with a fabulous service, and they aim to embrace the other fucking side. A competitor comes out with a shitty service and does their best to ostracize us. What a bunch of shit.

(Pardon my, um, French, this just really pisses me off.)
 
I'm with you Arden. They will say its to prevent us from purchasing music we won't be able to play, though. I'm not sure how that DRM will work on a Mac.

The real issue is not allowing any other browser but IE on the PC side, as well. There's zero excuse for that, as I see it.

Sue 'em anyway! ;) lol
 
1. buymusicsucks.com is quite crude, and unfortunately neither slick nor clever. buymusic.com does indeed suck, but i could be conveyed a little more convincingly...

2. the music industry has it's head up it's arse. i want radiohead - the bends. I can either pay $8.90 for NINE out of the TWELVE tracks on the album (the other three are unavailable) with absurd license restrictions (3 burns? get stuffed..) OR i jump on kazaa and get better quality tracks in half the time and do what i want with them. its illegal, it's wrong, but 99% of consumers don't give a rats arse and will do it anyway.

iTMS is done as right as possible, buymusic is done hopelessly wrong...
 
Saw this from a link on MacNN:
The way to go after illegal file sharing services is to compete with them...go after their weaknesses. The reason why people used these services is instant gratification: for most of the people who use file sharing, it is more about flexibility and not about free...we aim to take advantages of weaknesses of illegal sharing services: unreliable encoding; bad connection; no previews; wrong music; no album cover art; and at the end of the day, it is stealing.
- Peter Lowe, Director of Marketing for Applications and Services, Apple Computer, Inc.
http://www.paidcontent.org/
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I think that's why iTMS works & BuyMusic doesn't. Because iTMS competes against file sharing and wins (wins for enough people at least) and BuyMusic competes against file sharing and loses (loses for most people, it seems).

Another interesting aspect of this whole thing is that file sharing competition is a lot stronger on Windows than it is on the Mac.

It'll be very interesting to see how iTMS fares when it's ported to Windows. At least in my experience (and I've tried quite a few different Mac file sharing programs/services), nothing out there is as good as Kazaa in terms of ease of use, selection and speed, and Kazaa doesn't exist for the Mac. Does iTMS beat Kazaa?
 
Aren't users of Kazaa becoming threatened by people who are going after file sharers? No one, I think, would get in trouble through iTMS. iTMS is made only for music as far as I am concerned, while Kazaa is just like: hey come and get whatever you want.
 
The RIAA is going after people who share files online, and I doubt they're really going to discriminate between someone sharing hundreds of MB of music and hundreds of MB of porn. They can't go after iTMS because they authorized the whole service in the first place, and they're reaping the benefits from it. (Too bad the artists will see barely a penny, most likely, from all of your 99¢ purchases.)
 
Looks like buymusic.com's lawyers are out as well!

try going to buymusicsucks.com and you get redirected to here:

http://www.timb.us/archives/000019.html

they were threatened with legal action.

It's amazing, buymusic rips off Apple and literally bashes them in the commercial, but someone bashing them is threatened with legal action.

Also, I thought it was posted somewhere that they took off the mac restriction? I still can't get in unless I disable JS.
 
What about the other slamody sites? (Combination of slam & parody) Is BMDC going to go after them too?
 
Why not? They've got tons of time on their hands...they offer no support for their product and the "small" mac population is out selling the entire PC market in online music sales.
 
They really should concentrate on improving their services and not giving people a good reason for slamody sites.

If AAC downloads were Mac users and WMV downloads were Windows users, Mac users would far outnumber Windows users. Classic.
 
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