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Does Tesco know something the rest of us don’t? The supermarket has announced that it’s opening an online store of MP3 music, with all 3.3 million tracks DRM-free by the end of the year. Movies and TV shows will follow, says Tesco. It seems odd for two reasons.

Firstly, buying digital music isn’t a habit that has caught on. The global market is worth $3bn annually, but that’s a drop in the ocean; Reg readers pour scorn on people who actually fork out real money for digital songs - on a song-by-song basis - calling them “paytards”.

People love eMusic and Rhapsody because they offer something new. Music as a service doesn’t penalise exploration. Download a couple of clunkers, and you’ve still got a fistful of choices in your subscription account. By contrast, song-by-song music services merely satisfy an impulse purchase. But then so does PirateBay, Mininova, and the (back again) Demonoid. From where, in only a few more seconds, you can typically get the artist’s full LP in superior audio quality, with artwork.

That’s from The Register. Good read.