Rivals Hope to Sink IPod With Rented Music (AP)

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AP - Is music something you own or something you rent?

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[aaron]

some songs I'd like to rent, but some are keepers. How about rent to own?

[subnet_rx]

they are 99 cents to buy, I mean, how low can you go?

[iatro36]

Renting music with a subscription sounds like a hassle to me. Why should I pay a monthly fee if I might not even dl anything? I have a bunch of music, but there's still some songs I would like to have. But, there's a point where you have almost all the songs you want, and the need to get more starts to slow down. Buying music on a per song basis makes more sense.

[aaron]

I guess the consumers will decide.

[Performance Park]

I am not at all in to the renting of music. I want to own it all. If I like a song I like to keep it permanently. That's just me.

[iatro36]

Yea, makes more sense to keep it permanently. If you rent a song and listen to it enough, you'll get sick of it. Five years down the road you might want to listen to it again. Then you'd have to rent it a second time. That adds up...