Microsoft: free music downloads - but with a catch.The initial blurb looks promising - 'Microsoft to offer free music downloads'. The extended premise also sounds good: that MS will be allowing one Grammy-nominated song a day to be downloaded from their site in the lead-up to the awards ceremony. It makes you think they might potentially be pushing into mp3 blog-land with such a manouevere.

But, no, naturally, Microsoft totally miss the point when it comes to online music downloads. The catch? For starters, you have to be a 18yo+ US resident. What else? Hmmm, digital rights management downloads, as opposed to easy-to-format-shift mp3 files. Ahahaha, and it gets worse! You need to actually sign-up to their iTunes-equivalent MSN Music Store, for which you need to provide a credit card. Jaysus. All that, for a handful of tracks you could probably find in two seconds on kazaa.
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