FairUse4WM + Yahoo! Unlimited = the perfect music store.

I’ve opened an account to ‘test’ this and it works perfect. And having an unlimited monthly music subscription with no DRM just right for me. And I think this is going to be the only way for the P2P generation to start paying for music. I just wish the RIAA would wake up.

I’d also like to say The Yahoo! store (application) is awesome not better then the iTunes store but the best feature is playing music with one click. It has these play icons next to the artists and you can just sample a song or if you are part of the unlimited plan it just plays through them and then there are buttons to download albums and songs. Simple clicks instead of going back and forth throughout the clunky store.

The other issue is the WM DRM which is in big trouble. Unlike Apple how has a more closed system and could push out updates to the DRM and the players M$ cannot. They’d have to redo the DRM, make the stores use it and make vendors upgrade all the players; very unlikely. And it doesn’t look good for iPod haters because my speculation is the RIAA will stick with the closed model like the iPod in the future or worse the MPAA would go for the closed model.