January 03, 2008
Why CDs are still better than downloads
This is the third time I've bought an album from Amazon and the third time that the downloader has crashed. When this happens I have to send an email to Amazon to get them to unlock the album and allow me to redownload it. A huge pain the butt. With iTunes full of DRM & wacky AAC files, Yahoo Music & Napster with DRM & wacky WMA files, it simply doesn't make sense to buy music digitally.
This is the third time I've bought an album from Amazon and the third time that the downloader has crashed. When this happens I have to send an email to Amazon to get them to unlock the album and allow me to redownload it. A huge pain the butt. With iTunes full of DRM & wacky AAC files, Yahoo Music & Napster with DRM & wacky WMA files, it simply doesn't make sense to buy music digitally.
A CD still makes the best sense for music. You can play it in a CD player and you can rip it to MP3 (even if you lose the files).
You can try to tell me I'm wrong, but you know in your heart I'm right.
Posted by michael at January 03, 2008 07:40 AM