Sometimes Tech reporting drives me mad. According to the Times the iTunes Music Store has refused to sell the new BandAid song because it would mean altering its track price - they’re probably right to do this as they can’t make any exceptions to their policy lest the big labels start pushing for more concessions based on that precedent.
What’s stupid is the Times’ reporting on the subject:
Millions of iPod owners will not be able to play the track over the Christmas period.
No! No! No! No! No!
The iPod has ALWAYS been able to play MP3’s you dunces. AAC as a format (the format DRM’d and used by the iTMS) didn’t even EXIST when it was released! You can just buy the bloody BandAid single and rip it onto your computer and then transfer it onto your iPod! What the hell do they think early iPod owners (like myself) did before the iTMS arrived, sit around clicking our piezoelectric scroll wheel for hours on end?
Later
John
Posted by John Swaine at November 25, 2004 01:48 AM | TrackBack