Full quality music at much lower prices than iTunes and no DRM! Makes the iTunes business model look lame. Let's start the death knell for DRM music services.

Altough it's illegal to rent out an audio CD, there are ways around it. Most notably is a company where I live promoting the term "Burn Return". Return the purchased CD within 4 days and pay a $4.00 restocking fee per CD.

I use it all the time, wotks great and is perfectly legal!

Ha! they don't have a single album avialable on their site yet (We are loading our catalog of over 20,000 songs...)

Actually, it is legal to loan out a CD. First ownership laws say that when you buy a peice of media, it's yours, and the only thing you can't do with it is make multiple copies. But you can use it, sell it to a freind, loan it out, put it in a glass case, whatever. If media didnt have first buy laws, video stores couldn't exist.

1) it's illegal to rent CDs... unless you are a public library. (http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#109)

2) the store is a Yahoo! store... hmmm...

3) the domain is registered to a UPS Store mailbox... hmmm...

so have fun with your "free" ipod! be sure to tell everyone how that worked out for you...

seriously... you probably shouldn't even be promoting this crap lest someone actually get ripped off by it.

please send me a i pod to 100 humberstone road luton beds lu49ss

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Full quality music at much lower prices than iTunes and no DRM! Makes the iTunes business model look lame.

ongo bongo is a scam, they took my money

In the US, we have to deal with 17 USC 109 (b)(1)(A), which states:

(b)(1)(A) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a), unless authorized by the owners of copyright in the sound recording or the owner of copyright in a computer program (including any tape, disk, or other medium embodying such program), and in the case of a sound recording in the musical works embodied therein, neither the owner of a particular phonorecord nor any person in possession of a particular copy of a computer program (including any tape, disk, or other medium embodying such program), may, for the purposes of direct or indirect commercial advantage, dispose of, or authorize the disposal of, the possession of that phonorecord or computer program (including any tape, disk, or other medium embodying such program) by rental, lease, or lending, or by any other act or practice in the nature of rental, lease, or lending. Nothing in the preceding sentence shall apply to the rental, lease, or lending of a phonorecord for nonprofit purposes by a nonprofit library or nonprofit educational institution. The transfer of possession of a lawfully made copy of a computer program by a nonprofit educational institution to another nonprofit educational institution or to faculty, staff, and students does not constitute rental, lease, or lending for direct or indirect commercial purposes under this subsection.

can you rent music cds

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In the US, we have to deal with 17 USC 109 (b)(1)(A), which states:

(b)(1)(A) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a), unless authorized by the owners of copyright in the sound recording or the owner of copyright in a computer program...

I own a video store, i can rent anything i have purchased at any price as long as it is original.

Blockbuster music ring a bell? They rented discs, it has to be legal, they have more lawyers than OJ.

Why go to an online retailer and pay 22 bucks a month instead of going to your local public library and paying either nothing, or--like at my library--pay a 2 dollars for the recomended cd's? (sorry for the runnon folks)

big? give a number

I own a video store the reason the replacement cost for tapes was so high was that any movie coming out was at a retail of about 100 bucks 75 wholesale. we can rent anything, we just can not copy or suggest that you copy it. We pay 19.58 for dvd's and rent them, sometimes we buy them from wal mart.

What about http://thediscwizard.com they offer money back guarantee on ALL of their products. If you don't like a cd, you can return it for a refund! How cool is that! It's not renting, but hey, it's close!

Since 10 years ago, people in Japan could rent music CD. They would rent a CD, burn/rip to their PC or MiniDics(MD) players without any hindrance. And yet, the Japanese music industry is still one of the biggest in the world.