September 02, 2004
Writes Fred von Lohmann @ Deep Links: "Tech support for Microsoft's new MSN Music service is responding to the incompatibility between its downloads and the iPod by advising its customers to burn the downloads to CD, then rip the CD to a compatible format...Now that's what I call freedom of music choice, in contrast to Real Network's misleading campaign of the same name."
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