Thanks for your informative response. I haven't seen this before and it is real surprise to me. I assume that this requires a few other pieces to the puzzle here. My first assumption is that we are talking about an MP3 file. Is this correct? If so, then there must be a piece of software involved that marks the downloaded MP3 file with the credit card number. Then this downloaded and paid for music file can only be transferred to a device that has this same imbedded credit card number.
Somebody hasn't thought this thing through. If this description is accurate, in my humble opinion, it will be a complete flop! Several reasons. I am going to use the first person here, but I think more than many may feel the same way.
I am happy to pay artists for music I enjoy. But I have a real problem with restrictions on how I can play and transfer this music to all my music players. I want to be able to transfer this music to my home stereo, my car stereo, my Walkman, my underwater music player, or ghetto blaster without a hassle. But this scenario requires that I replace my home stereo CD player, replace my car stereo, replace my Walkman CD player and replace my ghetto blaster with equipment that will play these credit card marked MP3 files. Yeah, fat chance of that happening! But even if I did, what happens if I later change credit card accounts? Do I then just have to scrap all my paid music. No way in hell! Not only that but what happens if this technology does not get universally accepted? Do I have to have 2 of every kind of player? Or God forbid I should have 2 credit cards. Or what if this technology is later disrupted by another technology in 7 or 8 years. I then am supposed to scrap all my paid for music and re-purchase it in another non-credit card-marked format. (The only people who will even be able to afford this are the investors in Sandisk, who are then all multi-millionaires.) But this just ain't going to fly! That's just my opinion.
Let's hear from other music lovers on this thread. Would you buy music that you can only play on a player that uses a secure digital media card, as described as described by Art?
Vote yes or no. Thumbs up or thumbs down. My vote is thumbs down.
Steve 667
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