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To: slacker711 who wrote (46586)	8/19/2005 1:52:52 PM
From: Win-Lose-Draw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213172

What happens to the purchased music if Apple chooses - or is forced to - turn off its "authorization" servers?

To: slacker711 who wrote (46586)	8/22/2005 3:50:44 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213172

>Over the course of the two years, the Yahoo user will simultaneously have access to 1 million+ songs for a $120 AND be able to download (and own) any track they want for 79 cents a piece. So, if the user wants to own 500 songs it will cost $400 plus the $120 in subscription fees. At the end of the two years the user will have had access to Yahoo's entire database of songs for a net cost of $20. Seems like a great deal to me.<< slacker - I don't understand how you figure the user has a net cost of $20. Did you mean that the users's net cost is 20 bucks more than it would have been on the iTMS? The user has spent $520, and owns 500 songs. So that's a net cost of $520. The same 500 songs would have cost $500 at the iTunes store. It is true that the user would have had access to a bunch of other songs during the period, so perhaps that's worth the extra 20 bucks. - Allen