THE BEST WAY TO CONVINCE ME TO NOT USE YOUR SERVICE
So I'm looking for a non-DRM online music store. I have iTunes, and it's easy to use and all, but it bugs me that I pay 0.99€ (which is like $1.46) for songs that are stuck in iTunes and on my iPod...I just hate Apple on principle. I don't know, I need to do research about DRM music and what I can do to make this music available elsewhere.
I guess the bigger news here is that I'm looking to go legit. Don't get me wrong, I don't really feel bad about using BT or whatnot, it's just that at a certain point it becomes such a pain in the ass to find one obscure song through p2p, when iTunes (or somewhere else) has the ability to provide this for a small fee right away...Plus I'm an avid capitalist and this type of system helps to prove my ideology that the way forward isn't suing and being a general bitch but innovating and creating demand for new and unique services. As much as I dislike Apple and Steve "Hand" Jobs, it's hard to be a hater on what they've managed to do.
Anyway, the whole point of the post was that I'm looking for an alternative to Apple. I found Sony Connect Europe and click on the Google link and got the following message:
For those of you that can't read the text it says: "We have performed a basic system check and detected that your system is not compatible with the CONNECT service. We recommend to download and install the item below and try again."
The download is MS IE...The last way to get me to use your service is to tell me that I have to use the insecure and for-shit Internet Explorer because Firefox is "not compatible." Fuck off Sony. No really, just fuck off.
1 comment:
Unfortunately, a lot of companies develop their software to work with IE, and that's it. I had a hell of a time just paying my Verizon bill in Firefox for a long time, it was irritating. If that's the only thing you use IE for, that's not a big deal.
I've heard Apple has iTunes Plus; the tracks are more expensive but are DRM-free--but screw Apple. Do you have AMAZON MP3 over there? You just have to install a completely unobtrusive downloader from them, and I've used it with Firefox without any issues.
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