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What’s a website without a music store today? Nothing much at all.. especially when you’re a power player like Amazon. But where’s the fun in just allowing people to download good ‘ole non-protected tracks that they may be able to actually do something with.. like play for a friend or heaven forbid, transmit somewhere like another computer? That’s what I thought.. to the lawyers that would be just way too easy.

Last week Amazon announced their new music store, awesome right? Well of course. That is until you get someone to read the fine legal print to see what you are actually able to do with your digital gem.

Amazon’s contract says you “may copy, store, transfer and burn the Digital Content” for personal use. But then it goes further and specifies restrictions, saying you “agree that you will not redistribute, transmit, assign, sell, broadcast, rent, share, lend, modify, adapt, edit, sub-license or otherwise transfer or use the Digital Content.”

Amazing aeh? Makes you just want to rush to their site and spend all your money on some music you cant do anything but play on the computer you download them to in a set of headphones. That is of course just incase a friend might hear what you bought which could be construed as “broadcasting” or “sharing”.

Nothing says go back to illegal then some fine print on your hard earned dollar.