While an avid Mac user.
Mr. Neruda has a distaste for DRM.
Steve Jobs recently announced that he too feels the same way. This is of course following the news that Norway has taken the step to ban Itunes for its unfair business practices associated with DRM.
You buy low quality music. The music is then locked to your ipod, and cannot be copied more then a few times.
Untill Mr. Jobs is able to succesfully convince the big 4 that DRM is a stupid idea that is in fact, horrible for consumers, Mr. Neruda is happily using Emusic.com and Bleep.com for his music fixes.
Emusic charges you a monthly fee and gives you a certain amount of songs you can download per month for that fee. It is DRM free, and the lowest price in terms of cost, averaging around .33 cents per song. They also give you 25 free songs just for joining... but as a warning, they will charge you reoccuring after that if you do not cancel membership.
Bleep charges 1.25$ per song, and 9.99$ per album (Mr. Neruda only purchases albums so he doesn't mind). The library here is a bit more limited to Indie/Post Rock and Electronic then other competitors. But the added benifit is that you get non DRM songs recorded in either 320kbs mp3 or FLAC.
Mr. Neruda is banning Itunes Store and hoping more people do so as well untill Apple is effectively able to change their business practices.
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