When it comes to new music-downloading services, that is always my first question: What music format will the files be in? When describing their upcoming services-to-be, I find these companies to be exceptionally secretive about this. I can't stand 'non-standard proprietary' music formats. Within the 'established' formats, WMA is the least attractive, and, riddled with DRM, I will have nothing to do with them.

My second concern, and one which the services also seem to be very secretive about, is which artists, and how many artists will be offered.

Thirdly, I'm not fond of music 'subscription', services that charge a monthly fee whether you download anything or not. I'm happy to see (above) that Buy.com has not chosen to go that route.

P2P is having a very good effect all around !!! ("If you can't beat 'em <they can't>, then join 'em!") :-)

-- Mike --