Trouble with V Cast Music?

One of the biggest cell phone announcements at CES was Verizon's new V Cast Music. Created to compete with the Sprint Music Store, Verizon's service also allows for wireless downloads but at a cheaper price per song and with fewer restricitons. The service, which is Windows based, will launch January 16 with the LG VX8100 as the first supported phone model. Customers with a VX8100 can bring their phone to a Verizon store for an upgrade.

But since the January 5 announcement, we've caught whiff of some disturbing news. According to Phonescoop, the upgrade disables the playback of any preexisting MP3s saved to the memory card. Apparently, the Windows Media Player on the desktop transcodes the MP3 to a WMA file before you can save it to the phone. Again, it looks like a case of one step forward, two steps back.

[noloyalisti]

I'm so happy to finally see an American President speaking truth to power. We can have capitalism but you cannot have the current system of predatory capitalism where the Mafia CEOs do pretty much anything they want. The truth about the absolute disaster about trickle down, deregulation and privatization (aka Reaganomics) is being exposed.

Those myths were made up by a bunch of greedy, rich people and they got a cool brainless Reagan puppet to convince a lot of people to buy into it.

[tsigili]

Somehow, I suspect that the winners will continue to be the top 10% wealthiest people, and the losers will be the middle class, for sure.

[lawyertom1]

Yah, all the way to the bank - literally. A few of them need some jail time. Let them pay back Uncle Sam at the rate of 10 cents an hour.

[lakota2012]

Yep....the republiCONS were united behind the banking industry's boy -- senate miNOrity leader mcconnell -- and his ignorant stance of "another bailout by taxpayers," until yesterday. As this reform legislation gets more teeth, especially in the derivatives market, and gets stronger towards passage, the republiCONS are seeing a vote against it as a losing proposition with the American people.

We definitely need strong regulation that keeps the banking industry from playing the investors like a fiddle, and that never gives them another penny from taxpayers!

[stychokiller]

@lakota2012:
The latest financial crisis was caused by US Govt policies and the Federal Reserve
System. The Federal Reserve kept interest rates too low for too long, effectively
"Paying" financial firms to Borrow money. These firms then turned around and lent
the money to under-qualified borrowers -- yea, the US Govt. MANDATED that they
lend more to "under-served" (i.e., unqualified) Borrowers. Regulation (or not)
had very little to do with just following the Perverse Incentives laid out by
the US Govt. Now, everyone is clamoring for the US Govt. to once again put the
fox (the Federal Reserve) in charge of the hen house (after they almost burnt
it to the ground the last time). See any problem with your logic there, pardner?

[babooph]

After the many BANKRUPT bail outs[DEATH ]for any company-the US propaganda system will still be screaming it would by worse had the govt been in control-the brainwashed suckers will not see the obvious-DEATH is the worse & private companies committed economic suicide...

[soap-suds]

Payback is a bummer!

I do not believe it will be a pretty sight for any currently elected Member of Congress on the ballot in November who gets labeled with trying to water down or oppose what Lincoln is proposing on top of what Dodd initiated. This issue is not about politics; it is about the viewpoint of the General Public about their lives and their government.