iTunes Music Store. An online music store that lets customers quickly find, purchase and download over 200,000 songs from music companies including BMG, EMI, Sony Music, Universal and Warner Bros. for just 99 cents per song, without subscription fees, the iTunes Music Store allows burning songs onto an unlimited number of CDs for personal use, listening to songs on an unlimited number of iPods, playing songs on up to three Macintosh computers, and using songs in any application on the Mac, including iPhoto, iMovie and iDVD. [Apr 28] [Apple Hot News]

The service was down for most of the day, because of the load (Why does Apple screw up like that?), but I manage to use it and it is very good... The protection is good, not unbeatable, not draconian but good. Similar to what the iPod does... Very cool.

Is this a great service I can't live without? Too early to call. Will it destroy the free downloads for Mac users? Well, there isn't much to destroy, so I think Mac users will appreciate finding music to put in their computer in a easy, friendly and cheap manner... We shall see how much money this represents for Apple. That's the litmus test...

Update: The selection leaves a lot to be desired and this is something they will have to get on pronto... It has to be all the music... At least all the music that can be found in the grey to black market.

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Apple Introduces iTunes Music Store, iTunes 4, new iPod [Slashdot]

Trying it right now... More info in DiarioX.

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Net heavyweights unite to KO spam. America Online, Yahoo and Microsoft are pooling their resources and technical expertise to reduce unwanted commercial e-mail solicitations inundating their systems [CNET News.com]
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