Apple iTunes 4.5; 700,000,000 Sold; Free Songs, Apple Options

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Apple iTunes 4.5; 700,000,000 Sold; Free Songs

[peterkirn]

Well, that's why this new lossless format is good news -- for your ears, anyway.

For musicians' pocketbooks, CD is still the way to go, thanks to self-publishing musicians. And now some are going to MP3 online purchase. No, Apple won't open up the iTMS to us -- but we'd get lost in there anyway. And the lack of DRM isn't of big concern to musicians who are perfectly happy to sell MP3s with no DRM -- and there are people who will purchase, even more so if you build a relationship between listener and musician.