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Apple negotiating for repeat downloads of iTunes music purchases
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+1 for this
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Would you be willing to pay extra for this? I wouldn't mind paying an additional 10¢ per song if it meant I could download my purchased songs an unlimited # of times. That seems fair.
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I wouldn't.
This is the way things should work, I'm not paying extra for the insecurities of the RIAA.
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Why would you pay extra, on top of the already set price, just to be able to download the song again? You already paid for it! I usually back up all my songs onto an external hdd, so it doesn't really matter, but if you bought it once, you should have to pay anything extra to download it again.
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This is good news.
Would be great to buy on one device then when using the other iTunes knows this and prompts a dl . . . . . Out with syncing it every time just for a new purchase.
It isnt a huge deal to me, but yea im not a fan of having to *hook up to sync* all the time
Would be great to buy on one device then when using the other iTunes knows this and prompts a dl . . . . . Out with syncing it every time just for a new purchase.
It isnt a huge deal to me, but yea im not a fan of having to *hook up to sync* all the time
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Wow, and this whole time I thought that iTunes users were able to do this from the get-go! I didn't realize you guys had been taken for a ride all this time. Well, good luck in all that. Seriously. because that's just disgraceful on their part. I always assumed that once your transaction was in the database, re-downloading to the same account was a normal thing, in case one lost their data etc etc.. Ew.
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If there is any company out there that can negotiate this, it's definitely Apple. I'm glad they care about this change. Willing to bet, they get inundated with iTunes customers looking to recovery their purchased songs quite often.
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The RIAA lost the peg that would otherwise prop up the current scheme when they argued during Napster's peak that the price of music isn't for the CD itself (or whatever the container may be), but for the content.
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I wouldn't mind this at all, i love the idea of having your songs at a finger click away. Free would be nice of course.
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I'd be really happy to pay the 10¢ and have the song simultaneously download to A Mac and an ipod touch/ipad or something. I don't own an iOS device. But having to download the song to one device the transfer to the other device would be annoying.
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lets face it. the recording industry hates everyone. they are gonna fight for their right to sell their track multiple times. or put heavy DRM on it, or something like that.
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That is a great idea (simultaneous downloads).
But with CDs you still have to load them on your computer then sync to your iOS device. Maybe that won't always be the method if CDs phase out one day.
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I agree. I was referring to the itunes store with my comment. No physical CDs involved there. And for the times you purchase a music CD, there could be an option to rip the songs and send them to the iOS device at the same time. Well almost the same time.
It'd work like this. You rip a 12 track CD on your Mac. And after track 1 is ripped, at the same time track is one is sent to the iOS device and track 2 is ripped to the Mac. And so on and so on. Yes you still are syncing to the iOS device. But it happens at the same time as the CD rip. So you don't have to wait for the rip then when the whole CD is ripped then sync.
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Wireless syncing, I think that's in the works for the next Lion OS, right? You wouldn't have to pay extra for each song, when the actual itunes app can sync to your phone wirelessly. At least that's how I read into all that.
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