Kids want to own music

Frankly I'm not sure it's just the 'kids'. I'm 39 and whilst I like the Spotify service, I also like the knowledge that I've got my own music stored. I'd hate to think I'd built up a series of playlists with an online service only for them to disappear overnight for a variety of reasons

This link causes FF 3.5.2 to start allocating ram at the rate of 15MB/sec until it crashes. Anyone else?

At my startup, psonar, we believe in mp3s vs streaming - particularly for the 'kids'. I sit in front of a computer all day so streaming is ok for me, but teenagers spend far more of their time listening to music away from a computer. ipods, phones etc play a bigger part for them than computers.

Its also not just economically that streaming falls down, technologically the battery life and network bandwidth isn't there either - and doesn't show a lot of signs of improving rapidly

This article isn't about owning music at all!!

In my mind the issue is: do people want to own music or do they want to pay for a subscription--these are not one in the same.

The point by the way is valid. People get value out of listening to all-you-can-eat music, so they would pay. The tricky bit is making the transaction simple and automatic.

Makes sense: people download far more music than they listen to.

These kids actually think they own the mp3s they download?

This page has almost overwhelmed my Firefox browser taking up huge resources. Also it's not the original source, just a comment.