How I tried (and failed at) legally buying music in Germany
Posted on May 5th, 2008
Please note: What’s about to follow is a rant. It’s also advice to music labels. Short-short version, dear content traders: Make your stuff more easily available. This is a story of a sucky customer experience. As customers and experts alike will tell you, users like to rock, not to suck. Buying music online is supposedly easy. Or so you’d think. And indeed it can be, as I learned from the awesome music subscription at emusic.com, where I get 30 tracks per month. (I love it!) Alas, emusic.com doesn’t have access to all the music out there, so if you’re looking for something in particular you might end up with zero search results there. I just tried to buy the new Gnarls Barkley album, The…
Tagged: download, DRM, legal music, MP3, music, music industry
