is now redirecting Mac users to a page that indicates users must be running Windows and Internet Explorer to access the site. MacNN reader Adam Little notes that changing the user agent for Safari to Windows MSIE 6 makes the site load. Mr. Little also notes that Toast Titanium (a Mac-only product) is listed as a top CD-recording software package on the BuyMusic.com front page.
by MacNN Staff
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Why bother...
Thats a real special company... reeeaaaal special
one of the main functions of the user agent is for webmasters to monitor which browsers are frequenting site's the most.
changing agents is a short-sighted solution. sure, you get into the site *NOW*. but, by repeatedly hitting these sites with the proper agent, you are telling the webmasters that there are other browsers out there besides the MS tripe.
have you noticed lately how many banks are (slowly) starting to recognize safari users as real customers. this doesnt happen because some manager decides it time to start supporting safari now that its at rev 1.
it happens because either a) legions of irate mac users are bombarding their customer relations department or b) because some webmaster is doing their job, monitoring the agent logs, and deciding support is warranted.
do your part and hit these sites with safari if you want to see change.
Gee... buymusic.com only works with windows... I guess I have to buy a Dell and a Nomad now...
yeaaaah rrrright.
How do you change the user agent in Safari?
Just so I can see what the fuss is about on buymusic.com
Why would we want to see BuyMusic.com change to adopt mac-users as well as PC-Users?
(1) they're liers - they say you need windows to run the sight--a really stupid lie (if you're going to lie, at least make it good)
(2) The site is a pain in the you know what to use! Have you tried it versus iTunes?
(3) They are stupid. (yea I'm saying it again.) They aparently think "Oh you apple users are so special hu? We'll show you whose special! You won't let us on your service, we won't let you! So NYHEEAAAA!" They apparently forgot that iTunes will be avaliable for Windows this year. woops.
on my pc at work. the browse and search don't work, the prices are high for the most part, you need windows media player 9, geesh, how sad... and their ads suck.
I think that if BuyMusic.com worked under Safari (without changing the agent) I'd drop iTunes and go to BuyMusic.com. What do you think?
Uh-huh.
"I think that if BuyMusic.com worked under Safari (without changing the agent) I'd drop iTunes and go to BuyMusic.com. What do you think?"
I think you are Bill Gates' illegitamate son in h***.
or a Mac user that's bored today.
F#$K buymusic and anyone who uses it.
Censorship brings you free publicity.
so there are two posibilities
either mIcrosoft has a partnership with them in some way
or
they will eventually open up to Mac users, this way all sorts of people will hear about the site for free..
there might be "better" ways to advertise, but NONE work as good as censorship.
is an a**.
oooohh he figured out a way to sell c*** comodidity items below cost and make it up in volume...ooohhh he's up their with ford.
now he thinks he knows more then jobs when it comes to digital music? if any of you in OC are neighbors of him, please flip him off for me.
thanks
i think the real scandal is the ads they have posted on their site. They are obvious rip-offs of Apple's Music Store ads. One of them even features rocker Tommy Lee smashing the guitar used in Apple's own print ads for the music store.
go to http://www.pascal.com/buymusic.com/ to see them. (I added direct download links.)
What did it for me about BuyMusic was when its top man complimented the iPod, which doesn't work with BuyMusic's service, as the most outstanding device, but complained that it doesn't work with Windows. It's worked with Windows for... what? Over a year now; and the new iPods work with either OS. I think what he meant was that iPods don't support WMA format, which is what BuyMusic uses. But he tried to paint the iPod itself as something that only works with Macs.
You get the same error if you use Mozilla on Windows. On my work PC I don't do IE, but it is definitely Windows. Oh well. Guess they don't want any business.
And I am totally bored. I am bored with this crappy Mac OS X interface that **SUCKS**. I am totally bored with Apple - a company that has not had an original idea since the first iMac and Gil Amelio did that.
Everything Apple has is a repackaged product. Sure, nice packaging (with the exception of OSX which totally sucks) but NO ORIGINALITY.
Apple is sad tired and worthless company.
It would be so good if there would be something interesting that would happen in the computer industry to make our lives more interesting.
Hate that computers are now a dead industry.
I love trolls...
...anyway...BuyMusic's real issue (and we all know it) is the restrictions it places on what you can do with the song. Most songs on the site can be burned only 3 times (!!!!), and can exist on only 1 computer. Get real!
This makes me VERY mad!
What if Apple made the iTunes music store only available to Mac users....Oh wait....What is everbody complaining about again?
But, after this, I'll have to reconsider my purchasing decisions. They shouldn't have messed with us, or Apple.
I read on another bulletin board that redirection thingy is based on javascript, so, if you disable javascript in Safari, that the site will load... I didn't try it out though, since I could care less about that site. Thought I'd pass on the info though.
" What if Apple made the iTunes music store only available to Mac users....Oh wait....What is everbody complaining about again?"
Apple makes _Mac_ software. Buy.com/BuyMusic.com are just like microsoft. They leech off everything good and don't innovate. Yeah, Apple wasn't the first with an online music service, but I've tried a few, and iTMS is by far the best I've tried.
Quote :
"And I am totally bored. I am bored with this crappy Mac OS X interface that **SUCKS**. I am totally bored with Apple - a company that has not had an original idea since the first iMac and Gil Amelio did that.
Everything Apple has is a repackaged product. Sure, nice packaging (with the exception of OSX which totally sucks) but NO ORIGINALITY.
Apple is sad tired and worthless company.
It would be so good if there would be something interesting that would happen in the computer industry to make our lives more interesting.
Hate that computers are now a dead industry."
First, it's Steve Jobs that designed the iMac in 1997/1998 after the bought of NeXT by Apple..
MacOS X is what put the Mac right on track for a lot of peoples.. you can't deny that. (Just have a look at SlashDot..)
About every innovations surrounding computers has been made by Apple. Otherwise, Apple is trying to level the things up by making a similar product better.
Sorry dudes.. I was feeling bored and feed the troll!
Just like to thank the folks at BuyMusic.com for an absolutely hilarious week... it got funnier every day! It sure helped me get through an otherwise boring week at work!
Hoping for some more stupidity on your part next week!
Long live the Mac!
I See the point that an earlier post made about keeping user agents as is so that site-meisters see what their real traffic consists of so they can adjust their sites accordingly.
I got onto buymusic after changing Safari's User Agent.
When I opened a new window and changed it back to Automatic, I got booted. BFD.
While I was there I found NO classical music at all! This alone renders buymusic irrelevant...
Most of the posts here seem to be missing the point of the article. Its not that they don't support macs, its that Mac broswers can't surf the site.
What's the big deal about Mac users not being able to access the site. Its better than them being able to access it, roam around, and then when they decide its time to buy something, oh, wait, sorry, you can't, you need windows.
Hilarious!
www.BuyMusicAtApple.com
Windows machines suck!
-GB
Changed my user agent in Safari just to see (changed it back of course).
WHAT A LAME SITE!
I think the reason they are shutting out Mac users is because we have seen the iTunes Music Store and therefore can really see how lame Buy's implementation is.
They are embarrassed of themselves.
Anyone ever seen "There's Something About Mary"? Remember the guy who ran around saying "COCONUT"? ...I imagine Scott Blum does this on a daily basis...
Rather than a conspiracy, it was prob. some underpaid web designer who ripped off Apple's design and put in a simple code redirecting everything but IE-for-windows browsers. Would it help if Mac users put "BM" in their bookmark bar and clicked every hour to make their stats show they need to accommodate Mac users?
Now that's an ironic twist. I've been a Buy.com customer since their earliest days, and I've spent thousands of dollars with them.
I was a little annoyed by their blatant iTMS rip-off of a music store and underhanded ads, but hey, business is business.
But when you won't let me just shop around on my Mac, for no legitimate reason, that makes me mad. Now, not only will I not be buying any music from them, but they've pissed me off enough that I'm no longer heading there as a standard shopping option, and that's unfortuante--for both me and them.
s**** me for no good reason, and I'll s**** you back, even if it's only a drop in the bucket.
[Note: If you're wondering how this is different from iTMS being Mac-only, and why anybody would care, look at it this way. I have Macs and PCs around; maybe I want to shop around the iMusic store from my Mac at home, then if I see something I like, I'll buy it from work for my MP3 player. Not anymore. And iTunes is currently Mac-only, so it can't be helped, but they're certainly working on remedying that.]
Maybe Buy.com is afraid some Mac users will compare their service and prices directly, and find out Buy.com is inferior.
so mac users no not only can't buy anything from the site or listen to a track that came from the site (unless they use vpc), but now they can't even look at it?
Sounds like stupid marketing to me. Ya think Dell makes its online store purposefully incompatible with apple browsers? No, because you completely eliminate even the possiblity of a sale.
(speaking of stupid marketing, i saw the tv ads last night (right before the g5 commercial, oddly) and its just kinda sad. they definately had to get pro actors (these people actually could sing, dead giveaway), which kinda invalidates the idea of 'the rest of us'.
blocking mac users is damage control. itms has a better interface and is much easier to navigate (why is all the rock music under metal? shouldnt it be the other way around?) and isn't any cheaper, despite the claims ( cd's at buy.com are often cheaper).
what's buymusic's deal with apple anyway? why do they seem to hate apple and the mac community so much? platform envy?
I find their decision and business practice to be juvinile and not worth the time. I quickly checked their site and many tunes are priced at .99, not .79 like they adverstise. The use restrictions are more restricitve than Apples and they don't support AAC which is better than MP3.
I can't wait until Apple releases the Windows version. At least Apple knows they have to created something for both parties.
When will they learn?
Apple make their store compatible with Windows?
The superior OS stepping it's service down to service Windows users?
It isn't the fact they are not compatible (Buymusic) but that they are such blatant ripoff artists and are actively undermining the better system. It goes to motive. They know Macs are superior and iPod, and all that go with them, so instead of even attempting to compete, which they know would take revamping everything they stand for (Quick, cheap, unreliable, and oh yeah... one machine, rules, rules, rules, rules.) Oh f*** it.
They suck.
We rule.
It's all in the title ;)
Just Kidding
why would you want to download crappy 128 WMA anyway? let tommy lee smash the les paul and only allow pc users into his site ... the phrase "cutting off your nose to spite your face" comes to mind..
Sent this letter to them this morning:
--
Now I'm sure that this is probably the millionth email you've gotten about
this (which means that you've probably gotten more compliant letters than
you have sold songs) but...
Why would you develop your site to actually PREVENT a specific percentage of
your sales demographic from buying product from you? I'm speaking of the
fact that Mac users cannot get an account, and that you have to use Internet
Explorer to even view the site.
The site obviously works on non IE browsers, so why turn away and hinder
potential customers?
Why gear your ads to slap the public for using ITMS? Mac user or not, people
just want a better, cheaper product - all you are doing is creating
dissention which I feel will prove to be counter productive to your design.
You're saying 'We don't want your money, go somewhere else' to about %25 of
an existing market. Basically you are preventing yourself from fully
capitalizing on the market, which is stupid.
I spend about $30 a week on average on mp3s.. and since I use a mac and
safari I will not be using buymusic.com - until you get with the program
it's your loss. I am not alone.
I'm assuming if there was a legitimate reason for all of this you'd have it posted somewhere that the affected user group would be able to read it.. like on the 'you need IE' splash page. Something that simple would have been enough for me, I probably wouldn't have written this letter.
Kindest Regards,
Am I the only one to find these initials delightfully amusing?
It's not only mac users, it's also PC netscape and Mozilla, etc users. Everyone not PC and IE get shunned. They are pissing away alot of business, even PC business if you don't kneel in front of M$. Good. You sleep with the devil, he nails you up the a** when you role over.
Here's an open challenge to anyone at there:
List 10 songs that are .79 cents.
List 5 albums that are $7.95
Obviously you'd need a PC or reconfigure your browser, but during my lunch break at work (I'm on a PC, own an iBook at home) I could not find one song or one album that was at their 'advertised' price.
If you do get to visit their webpage, you'll notice all the songs and albums advertised on their front page are NOT .79 cents or 7.95. They're more.
For example, one song by Audioslave cost 1.14. The same song on iTMS is .99 cents. There is a 4 minute Missy Elliot track that is 1.99. Two bucks???!!!???
I even looked at what i thought was the most obscure tracks I could find. I went to the Jazz section, and looked under Alto Tenor. All songs were .99 cents!!!
And why in the h*** do you have songs that "aren't available yet" ????.
Step right up and take swing, try to find the magical advertised price...
How can they expect to be taken seriously when they have carbon copied everything they offer from Apple? Commercials, the "store" layout... the single lamest thing I have ever seen a company try to pull off.
"Rather than a conspiracy, it was prob. some underpaid web designer who ripped off Apple's design and put in a simple code redirecting everything but IE-for-windows browsers."
No, it was intentional.
When the BuyMusic.com website was launched earlier this week, it was accessible to Mozilla, Safari, Opera, Camino, etc. You were not able to actually buy any songs, but you could look around the website.
Then sometime in the latter half of the week, BuyMusic.com changed their website to impose exclusively Windows IE access to every single page.
Something like that could not have been done accidentally.
iTunes is better anyway... let em block us. They're doing us a favor by sheilding us from their unoriginal, anti-innovative attempt at a website.
I tell everyone that will listen that the ipod is for mac only, that way they won't buy the windows version.... heh heh
Well Microsoft invented WMA and it's their own personal DRM solution for Windows. I don't think the DRM stuff is fully implemented on the Mac. Now, Microsoft was being shortsighted thinking they could supplant strong standards like MP3, AAC, and OGG in favor of an entrenched and apparently inflexible media format. You can't put a WMA file on a portable music player. You can't put a WMA on an iPod - yet. I really don't know what MS was thinking (though I suspect it was prefixed by dollar signs), and I have no clue what Scott Blum is thinking unless he's got some under the table investment from Microsoft. After all, MS wants to strengthen the branding and ubiquity of WMA, and Scott Blum wants to line his pockets. What greater ideal is there in our little cuckoo culture than that?
Let's face it, if their songs are only WMA, then their site will only be IE compatable.
I'm sure it is part of their agreement with MS.
Just saw a BuyMusic ad. Wait until you see one-- complete duplication of Music store ad. Exactly
The funniest thing about all this is if you look at their code, the body tag of every page includes marginwidth="0" and marginheight="0" ? attributes that only work in Netscape! :-D
>>"...complete duplication of Music store ad."
That's what happens to inovators.
Buymusic.com = lackers
...from a company that can?t even spell ?compact disc?? Check out http://www.buymusic.com/support/help.aspx#Minimum_Downloading ... ?The Compact Disk icon shows the number of times the song can be copied or ?burned? to compact disks.?
Freakin? morons.
is an iPod user and he has admitted it publicly. He's only doing the commercials for the money. Sure it's lame, but I can only imagine how much he's getting paid for this c***.
nothing like looking for something interesting while using the word interesting twice. not so interesting.
to Mac. Buymusic.com sucks!
"When the BuyMusic.com website was launched earlier this week, it was accessible to Mozilla "
No it was not. I tried on the date of launch using Moz 1.4 on w2k. Did not work.
One shoppers experience with buymusic.com
http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/004057.php
What's the deal with the obviously orthodox jewish guy singing "Superfreak" in one of their ads? Maybe the ADL will get involved...
But it needs one change:
BUYMUSIC.COM
GET F--KED
No it was not. I tried on the date of launch using Moz 1.4 on w2k. Did not work.
Worked on fine using Chimera for me.
Not that I care - I wouldn't buy anything that uses Windows DRM.
"When the BuyMusic.com website was launched earlier this week, it was accessible to Mozilla "
"No it was not. I tried on the date of launch using Moz 1.4 on w2k. Did not work."
Well I guarantee you that it was indeed accessible to me using Mozilla 1.4 on OS X for the first 2 days.
Buymusic.com is a total joke. They have no control over any of the music process: all they do is process your credit card number to get paid. That is it. They can't help you if the download fails. They can't help you burn a CD or load music onto your mp3 player. They can't help you figure out windows media player. They offer no value, just overpriced tracks. They couldn't even negotiate a decent and consistent license like iTMS. Scot Blum is just a nipple being iced over by Bill Gates.
"Scot Blum is just a nipple being iced over by Bill Gates."
Damn, what an awesome phrase.
On the first day I could visit buymusic.com from Safari, but not search. The action for their "Search" button had a backslash after the hostname, instead of a forward slash. I simply made a copy of their HTML, changed the to a /, and I could search fine.
On day two, they actually fixed this, so I could use it from Chimera/Safari and do searches and everything.
On day 3 I started getting the redirection that all non-Windows-IE users get.
It requires IE because its tied to the DRM (digital rights management) inherent in IE.
It isn't because anybody feels threatened by Apple - who markets their music to only 3% of computer users.
Since you can't buy anything without IE - why would they allow non-IE-using leeches to consume their bandwidth?
Get a grip, zealots.
this one works fine in safari mind... :-)
http://buymusicsucks.com/
Ok, I am on the a windows platform now. I still have to use IE to even download the music. Why is it worse that Mac users can not browse the site when the same applies to windows users. I have Firebird/Mozilla as my prefered browser and it is exactly the same issue at hand. No BuyMusic just do a lock-in period. It is c*** all around for any user on any platform. I can not understand why browsing the site should be such a big issue when you still can not use it. I just go elsewhere for my music.
Let's give them some statistics that will perhaps make them change their mind...
Instructions:
A/ copy the text below into any plain-text editor.
B/ Save as text-only "geteven.pl" in your Home directory
C/ open the Terminal app, and write : "perl -w ~/geteven.pl"
(note, you may not have perl with all the modules necessary - contact me for details if this fails to run)
D/ let it run... (soon 100 hits from Safari...)
E/ repeat as often as you like to get them to listen....
Have fun knowing that you are making the internet a safer place for the macintosh.
Here is the code:
for($i=1;$inew;
$ua->agent("Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/60 (like Gecko) Safari/60");
$req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => 'http://www.buymusic.com');$req->header('Accept' => 'text/html');
$res = $ua->request($req);if ($res->is_success) {print "Got $i...n";} else {print "Error: " . $res->status_line . "n";}}
for($i=1;$inew;
$ua->agent("Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/60 (like Gecko) Safari/60");
$req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => 'http://www.buymusic.com');$req->header('Accept' => 'text/html');
$res = $ua->request($req);if ($res->is_success) {print "Got $i...n";} else {print "Error: " . $res->status_line . "n";}}
ALL OF YOU!!
HAHAHA! For their golive, they switched from Windows 2000, to Lunux. Now that's funny. They are also being fronted by akamai, as is the iTMS; but that's okay because Apple owns a ton of Akamai... HEHEHEHEHEHEEEE!
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.buymusic.com
This is *probably* related to their advertising campaign. Apple's in a position to go after them, in all likelihood, for look-and-feel confusion with their own product; if they're targeted at different markets, i.e., pc vs mac, it could be more difficult for them to argue that case.
I wouldn't be surprised if we see news of cease and desist orders coming out of Apple to BuyMusic and this change being fallout from that.
in a terminal window, type "sh"
then type: "while true; do curl -f -L -s -S --stderr /dev/null http://www.buymusic.com/ierequired.htm; done"
then walk away... type control+c when you're done
I'm running camino on OS 10.1.5. I disabled javascript and was able to load the front page. Couldn't you download the files from this site and then convert it to a different format through either burning a CD or some shareware? Not that I want to but it is possible...right?
f*** YOU M$ LAMER!
It requires IE because its tied to the DRM (digital rights management) inherent in IE.
It isn't because anybody feels threatened by Apple - who markets their music to only 3% of computer users.
Since you can't buy anything without IE - why would they allow non-IE-using leeches to consume their bandwidth?
Get a grip, zealots.
>in a terminal window, type "sh"
>
>then type: "while true; do curl -f -L -s -S --stderr /dev/null >http://www.buymusic.com/ierequired.htm; done"
>
>then walk away... type control+c when you're done
What will the above do?
Download the html for the "ierequired.htm" page over and over again.
why bother with buymusic.com? we've got ITMS which kicks all others' asses anyway.
Hilarious!
www.BuyMusic.com
Apple machines suck!
-GB
!
Well, if you want a big laugh, get a load (no BuyMusic pun intended) of this from their "Company Info" link:
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About BuyMusic.com
BuyMusic.com, offers approximately 300,000 songs for download in all categories of music from Top Ten to rare independents. And if you’re looking for something to listen to your music on, we sell many of the best brands of personal audio electronics that are available.
Shop quickly and easily at 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. BuyMusic.com, founded in July 2003, is located in Aliso Viejo, California. BuyMusic.com™ and Get Loaded™ are trademarks of BuyMusic.com Inc.
Check out just a few of the great reasons people choose BuyMusic.com:
Huge Selection
Choose from our broad selection of music from the big labels like BMG, EMI, Sony, Universal, and Warner, as well as the independent labels. Our hardware is the best, with names like Nomad, Irock, Yamaha, Sony, and Iomega. With over this many songs and these great products in one convenient, easy-to-use site, you’re sure to find what you’re looking for at BuyMusic.com. Through our strong relationship with the world’s leading distributors, BuyMusic.com gives you direct access to the latest, most popular and hard-to-find products available.
Commitment to Service
BuyMusic.com has turned into the destination of choice for enthusiastic downloaders by delivering on our commitment to complete customer satisfaction. Our award-winning customer service is here for you, with convenient options to meet your support needs, such as an online Help Center and easy-to-find policies and procedures to assist you through any of your purchases.
Safe and Secure
To ensure your transactions are secure when placing orders online, BuyMusic.com uses Verisign, an Internet leader in security transactions, on every order processed. We also take extra care to protect your information by using advanced encryption and firewall technology throughout the ordering process. To further ensure your security, we use state-of-the-art SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption to protect personal information from unauthorized use. And your music downloads have their own DRM license so you can enjoy your music whether or not your logged on to the internet.
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Ummm...who wrote this? I can't begin to count all of the grammatical errors, like that last sentence: "whether or not YOUR logged on to the INTERNET". Pathetic.
"BuyMusic.com has turned into the destination of choice for enthusiastic downloaders". How can they say this when the site is only a few days old. I guess they just wrote it up in advance of the site launch and assumed it would become true.
Here is my favorite, from the "Huge Selection" paragraph: "With over this
Here is my favorite grammatical gaff, from the "Huge Selection" paragraph: "With over this many songs and these great products..."
I think the point has been well made by everyone here that BuyMusic is a complete rip-off and a complete waste of time.
- TMO
... their "award-winning customer service" !!!
In only a few days of operation, their customer service has already won an award!!! Congrats on receiving your GREAT BLUMPKIN for Customer Service, BuyMusic.Com!!!
From the buymusic.com site:
"...To further ensure your security, we use state-of-the-art SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption to protect personal information from unauthorized use..."
These fuckers state flatly in their privacy policy:
"...we reserve the right to use or disclose your personally identifiable information for business reasons in whatever manner desired..."
And another time in their privacy disclosure:
"With whom do we share your information?
We may also share your Personally Identifiable Information with third parties who provide services to us, our customers and web site visitors. Those third parties include authorized contractors, temporary employees and consultants and other companies working with us such as Buy Services (collectively, "agents"). Where we believe it to be appropriate (in our sole discretion), we will ask our agents not to disclose or use your personal information for purposes other than to provide services to you or BuyMusic."
So basically, they suck. They claim to use latest technology to protect your private information, but at the same time once they have securely attained your information they proceed to give it, sell it, bequeeth it to anyone and everyone. This is a total breakdown of the security model. Why not just put my information on billboards and the sides of buses while your at it?
As was stated before, "Scott Blum is just a nipple being iced over by Bill Gates"
Why should Scott bother to sell music to only a 3% (mac users worldwide ) market share . Mac users mean nothing in terms of overall revenue. To those that b**** and complain have you started a company like his ? If not, you little worthless wage slaves shut the h*** up.
Scott is never going to gather even 3% of 3% of the Windows market because buymusic.com sucks so bad even Windows users won't be impressed - if they can figure out how to use it in the first place.
They're not blocking Mac users. They're blockign everyone who is not running IE on Windows.
Fire up Mozilla on Windows and you get the same error.
This is not a conspiracy.
Hm... did you know that they are no longer going to sell IE seperately? Eventually it will only be bundled with WINDOWS
you dumbass. And in order to get the new versio nof IE you will have to upgrade WINDOWS.
DO YOU LIKE APPLES NOW?
WELL HOW ABOUT THEM APPLES?
MORON.
Apple has announced it will make its TOTALLY PROPRIETARY iTMS service windows compatible. Why should they do this? They know that the PC world is going to copy and undercut their efforts with total ferocity. The real reason they are making iTMS windows compatible is because the WINDOWS USERS want it. The winusers have seen the light at the end of the tunnel and know that their current offerings are total c***. I just think it is pathetic the s****** Blum not only stole the look and feel of iTMS, but he has ripped off the Apple ads and slogans as well. I thought the whole idea behind DRM was to protect "intellectual property from theft". So the irony is that s****** starts up a service that "aims to protect intellectual property" but he himself steals his concepet, design and advertising from someone else. What a two-faced b******.
Well, you need to use that sucky Windows Media 9, which the Mac Business Unit hasn't put out on OS X. (All they really need to do, if necessary is sell the rights to the codec to Apple and that would be that. Who wants to collect media players?) But of course, the codec is just a fiddle of MPEG4, changing it JUST ENOUGH so it won't work in QuickTime. Why? Quality? Hahahaha!
Look, Apple, bring out iTunes for Windows soon, and blow this moron away.
yawwnn
It is kind of odd that the buymusic commercials look kind of simular to something else...oh yeah...the iTunes music store commercials! Hmm...can't they think of something more creative than taking Apples ideas? Plus, they can only be downloaded in windows media forms, I really wouldn't want to have to rely on a windows machine even more that I have to! Maybe Apple will get smart and sue buymusic.com for taking their commericals!
They should make fun of them in return.
Then in the end highlight all that is wrong with buymusic.com
That shouldn't be too difficult.
"It isn't because anybody feels threatened by Apple - who markets their music to only 3% of computer users.
Since you can't buy anything without IE - why would they allow non-IE-using leeches to consume their bandwidth?"
There are a lot of good reasons to allow people without Windows IE to browse the website.
There are not ANY good reasons to do the blocking that BuyMusic is doing.
"They're not blocking Mac users. They're blockign everyone who is not running IE on Windows.
Fire up Mozilla on Windows and you get the same error.
This is not a conspiracy."
It is a conspiracy. They are trying to force everyone to use IE.
When the website first came online, IT DID NOT REQUIRE IE.
They have now changed it to try to prevent people from accessing the website with other browsers.
There is absolutely no reason to force people to use IE to view the website. It is completely illogical.
I have a Windows desktop PC and a Mac laptop. If I am on the road, I can not even browse the BuyMusic website. That is stupid. BuyMusic might have the song for a better price than iTunes Music Store, but there is no longer any way for me to find out until I go home to my Windows PC. If I knew I could save a few bucks, I might wait, but since there is no way to find out and since many of BuyMusic's tracks are more expensive than iTMS and have more limited DRM, BuyMusic is pretty much guaranteeing that I will not buy from them.
If they FORCE you to USE IE, then eventually; and they KNOW THIS
just like I do,
IE will be BUNDLED with WINDOWS only! and you will have to own WINDOWS in order to access their service.
That would block Mac users. Don't you think?
You dumbass.
On April 28, 2003 Apple revolutionized the way music content was delivered to customers worldwide with it's cutting edge and innovative iTuned Music Store. Apple gracefully achieved what other companies couldn't. BuyMusic.com has achieved nothing to only blatantly exploit Apple's achievements. This plagiarism is low and contemptible and will never change the fact that the Windows platform is inferior. I would rather buy my music on the original iTunes Music store than to struggle and become irritated with BuyMusic.com's clumsy and second-string interface. Windows is for the mass market like McDonalds, while Apple is for those who have better taste and would rather eat at a gourmet restaurant. I choose Apple because I deserve better than what PCs have to offer. When iTunes is released for Windows it will be merely an appetizer.
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