Comments on: Music Bluehyppo – the Malaysia iTune Store Wannabe

By: Faiz Firman

Faiz Firman — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 07:53:25 +0000

Well .. i do think the business will pick up eventually. without knowing the facts right you assume that iTunes is selling the biggest bulk of music digitally.
But in truth; Itunes is ranked 4th, with Walmart Music being the biggest music store in the US surpassing even Itunes. Walmart is selling their songs in WMA format. To enlighten you guys out there why bluehyppo runs on WMA format; most major labels trust DRMed WMA (ie Universal, Warner, Sony BMG, EMI) as the prerequisite to run an online music store. The Apple AAC DRM format is not being licensed freely to be used by other music stores as Apple only allows this technology to be used on their Itunes.
Coming back to the DRM technology (Digital Rights Management); its a cat and mouse thing. When somebody creates a new lock; somebody else out there is creating a new pick to open it. In saying so, DRM is a deterrent, it would never stop piracy in a holistic way, but eventually it might prevent the spread in a controlled manner. The same way we are making a fuss on what is the use of DRM if you can burn it to CDs and rip them back to mp3 and play them on another device; well look around you mate-are the CDs at the store protected or have DRM in them? You can still rip them right?
Speaking of the music.bluehyppo.com site – its a bit dull and not lively enuff, that i agree. Music content is concerned-it is quite comprehensive actually.If you guys have any queries on the digital music biz-just ask

By: Max

Max — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 19:15:26 +0000

Ya, u guys rite, who cares to download digital tunes from here, ppl these day dun care bout copright infringement, ppl prefer to torrenting around for music and movies, as this activity has become a traditions for them, and majority of them are not aware of this illegal download issue.

By: emon3y

emon3y — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 16:07:22 +0000

i love BlueHyppo men….

By: jumanjisama

jumanjisama — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 15:55:46 +0000

i think they are only targeting the top 10k community in Malaysia – and of course, their off springs. No average teenager in Malaysia can afford or has the necessary medium to purchase music online, really bad business planning – typical Telekom

By: Spaz

Spaz — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 15:11:32 +0000

You can do the same thing with songs purchased from iTunes & play them on any WMA device.

By: yteh

yteh — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 14:25:29 +0000

Sorry for my ignorance but I wasn’t aware that iTunes isn’t available in Malaysia. Well, all the best to BlueHyppo I guess.

By: wong

wong — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:09:46 +0000

NEh… I think BlueHyppo knows our style! Good thing they know and bad news for other business… Dude… You’re half way ruining their business… lol~! Good catch!

By: CLF

CLF — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:43:51 +0000

I dont think this is a very good idea…. Malaysians are stil not too use to e-shop, dont need to say buy songs alrdy….