sony blows monkey nuts.

nice little link here from Exploded Library: still no iTunes Music Store in Australia - a casualty of squabbling between Apple and Sony telling why the Australian iTunes store is still nowhere to be found. Sony is stone-walling over license rates. funny thing, i won't rush out to buy cd's at present but if i could just download 'em there's quite a few 'classics' i want to get (Robert Palmer's 'Heavy Nova' and 'Riptide' to start with!) as well as new releases which i'd download for AU$10 in a heartbeat. Sony's other 'issue' is it's highly shite music format called ATRAC. a format no-one has cared about up til now and i'm betting the farm that no-on will give a shite in the future. somehow they think holding out content to one country will make apple accept ATRAC, give em more cash per sale and somehow make Sony a major player in the online music world. they are content producers for pretty much every format of anything (music, film, electronic devices, etc etc) out there and now they want to be the title holders for delivery as well. it aint gonna happen.

so while Sony hold out for better rates i'll just download their latest releases for free though Limewire. good play fucknuts.