Do all these companies really expect the consumer to download each one of the pieces of software, sign up, give credit card information etc to download songs?? NO!!! I want one service and itunes does a pretty damn good job of it. Its obvious that Universal doesnt want to pay fees to itunes so they decide to open thier own store which only makes people like myself resort to p2p when needed.

Get a clue, Universal.

I am sorry to say that this DRM garbage is garbage. I pay for the song and can only listen to it in Itunes? What about my car? I dont want to buy an Ipod. So now I resort to dling from p2p after I buy it. I own it so it's not i11egal, and I get a flac, much better than some low quality itunes.

itunes u can use credit card info and ipods are hot and require the itunes software. cool i have an ipod and the software oh but my computer is new no songs. hmm using my aol account i can purchase music. word. itunes works with aol, creditcard. ect. lots of music. so why not check out a few. i wouldnt download 9 different programs and each one has to work with a different player. windamp + itunes is bad enough without adding napster,rapshody,ect ect. get with the times. =]

agreed, itunes is a much much more convenient design, i actually think napster is the best downloading service so far though. They have drm but thats so easy to get rid of that it shouldnt even be a big deal.

napster is pay by month, not by song. much cheaper that way, and that way you can download anything you want, not just the stuff worth paying for.

This is why P2P strives. One stop for all of your pirating needs. Oh yeah, it is also free.

Wel we do need an itunes alternative not everyone is a fan of apple.