Posts Tagged ‘Amazon’

Posted on October 3, 2007 - by Justin Hartman

Amazon MP3 more of the same iTunes crap

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When I read of the launch of Amazon MP3 I honestly thought that finally some large company was seriously going to change accessibility to music in South Africa. How wrong I was…

While Amazon MP3 will compete directly, and very effectively, with iTunes it really hasn’t changed much for us third-world users here in South Africa. Jason Bagley reports that Amazon MP3 works well for him but I’ve now tried to buy three different albums and all three gave me the following error message.

Here I was getting all excited but clearly there are still a lot of usage restrictions for us mere mortals…