A Billion Suckers

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Photographer, Flickr dude extraordinaire, Thomas Hawk weighs in on Apple’s announcement of the billionth iTunes download. I think he’s right on and his point is the reason why I’m still uneasy about embracing iTunes. I posted twice about this in the past and, despite actually buying a song from iTunes in August, I’ve only bought one other song since. Both purchases were ones that I’d consider throwaways. If I really want a full album, I’m sticking with CDs. Of course, going that route doesn’t avoid the DRM nightmare as evidenced by the Sony DRM debacle that continues to make news.

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  1. End of Silence - Freedom hating on the internets since 2002 » links for 2007-01-09 on January 9, 2007 11:17 am

    [...] Alpha Geek: CDs vs. Downloads - Lifehacker One of the writers at Lifehacker comes out with the same conclusion that I came to a while ago: http://www.thechunk.com/blog/archive/a-billion-suckers/ (tags: download cd mp3 drm lifehacker) [...]


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