A number of years ago, my family joined a site that claimed it would allow us to have unlimited legal downloads of music for a lifetime of playlists. A couple months later our computer crashed, so we got to go through the joy of re-creating that playlist and waiting for the downloads to be available. Some never were. But eventually we got most of the files back and continued to download more music. Suddenly, the service disappeared. Did we get swindled? Probably. But we learned that we didn’t want to use such services again for other reasons, as well; it seems next to impossible to take your music with you when you upgrade machines. We obviously weren’t the only people looking for music online since the internet music storage/playlist was born soon after.
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