To all the responses along the lines of "good, it's more competition and will bring down prices"
Music is not a free commodity, Apple can't just sell music as they want to, the rights must be negotiated with each label in each country. If it were up to Apple they would most certainly sell all DRM free tracks, but the music industry won't allow that.
I don't understand how exactly Amazon is going to go world-wide with their store when Apple has had to negotiate with the rights-holders in each country to open a store there. If Amazon has found some technical loophole in international law or the music industry's licensing schemes then I'm sure Apple will jump on board with the world-wide distribution thing quite quickly under the same auspices.
Music is not a free commodity, Apple can't just sell music as they want to, the rights must be negotiated with each label in each country. If it were up to Apple they would most certainly sell all DRM free tracks, but the music industry won't allow that.
I don't understand how exactly Amazon is going to go world-wide with their store when Apple has had to negotiate with the rights-holders in each country to open a store there. If Amazon has found some technical loophole in international law or the music industry's licensing schemes then I'm sure Apple will jump on board with the world-wide distribution thing quite quickly under the same auspices.