Amazon.com this morning announced a service called AutoRip, which gives customers free MP3 versions of CDs they buy from the site.
Any customer who has bought a CD in the catalogue from Amazon since the firm started trading in 1998 will be eligible to get a free MP3 copy of it.
BBC: Amazon AutoRip service gives out free digital copies of CDs
This observation is not a mere toss-away but rather a belief that what we witnessed in the music industry over a decade ago, with consumers opting for illegal but free MP3 downloads over legal equivalent is now starting to happen in the movie industry.
Zango's predecessor, N-case, bundled free software like MP3 utilities without adequately informing users they were also getting spyware.
Ericsson made some interesting accessories for the T28, like the "CHA-10 Chatboard" (a QWERTY keyboard for text messaging), the "MP3 hands-free kit HPM-10" (an MP3 player with an MMC card slot and standard 3.5mm headphone jack) and the aforementioned "Bluetooth phone adapter DBA-10".
And Sony BMG will join EMI, Universal Music Group and a pack of independent labels that sell so-called digital rights management-free music in Amazon MP3, the company's music store.
That meant their music could be made available on Amazon MP3, which does not use DRM, and which features free software that delivers a customer's MP3 file directly to their iTunes library.
Cloud Player Free customers can store all MP3 music purchased at Amazon, plus import up to 250 songs from their PC or Mac to Cloud Player, all at no charge.
Amazon's MP3 Store offers a free music playlist for the month.
In late December, Amazon.com added Warner Music Group to the growing number of labels that sell music free of copy protections on Amazon's Amazon MP3 digital music store.
In late December, Amazon.com added Warner Music Group (nyse: WMG - news - people ) to the growing number of labels that sell music free of copy protections on Amazon's Amazon MP3 digital music store.
Now MP3.com bills itself as the largest, legal free music site, and with 1.4 million tunes on file and 20 million registered users, it is.
All Amazon MP3 purchases and up to 250 imported songs can be stored for free.
Additionally, customers who have purchased AutoRip CDs at any time since Amazon first opened its Music Store in 1998 will find MP3 versions of those albums in their Cloud Player libraries - also automatically and for free.
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Amazon Cloud Player eliminates the need to download files before playing them, with scan and match technology and all Amazon MP3's, even ones customers have purchased in the past, are always storied for free in Cloud Player.
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