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05/23/2003, 10:00pm, EDT
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Tech news: Microsoft is quietly preparing for a counterattack to iTunes by improving its own technology for supporting subscription music services; The California State Senate approved a bill that would make it illegal to send unsolicited e-mail advertising and allows people to sue spammers for $500 per unwanted message, while a new proposal in the House promises to slap the worst bulk e-mailers with prison terms and millions of dollars in fines; Kazaa file-sharing software is on track to become the most-popular free program on the Web with over 230 million downloads; and Amazon.com has announced it will use Microsoft's Windows Media 9 Series products to stream music samples to customers from its sites (e.g., CDnow.com, VirginMega.com and Borders.com).
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I certainly don't want to risk losing all my music if I stop paying a monthly fee. That's such crap, and M$ is so consumed by money they forget about what consumers really want. Anyone who thinks people will "warm up" to the subscription music plans is completely ignorant of consumer wants.
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You macdroids are so behind the time!
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Just like the wysiwyg idea. MS had that way before even Xerox.
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Tell them that since you can't listen to samples, you're going to buy your tunes from the iTunes Music Store. That should do the trick.
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