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Post: What's the point?

Ross Beavis

What's the point? 

In Record labels to ditch CD singles for USB Flash drives

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At the moment, you buy a CD to avoid DRM and to get it in the highest quality possible. What's the point of going into a shop and buying some low-fi MP3s badly encoded on a read-only (I presume) USB stick that's not going to fit nicely into a CD rack, only to get the same shabby quality you can download from iTunes?!

They tried replacing CDs with the minidisc - and that flopped. What makes them think this is going to fare any better?