Downloading Music from walmart.com

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Win XP Home + SP2
When I click "Buy" on a walmart.com song, I get a pop-up that says:

"We need to update your computer. ... Here's what we need to
install on your computer: Download Manager. ... Our download
manager makes getting our song files easy -- once you buy a song
it is automatically downloaded, ready to play, and easy to find
in your Windows Media Player media library."

This is _mandatory_ before you can buy and download a song.
The parts about doing this makes it "easy to download",
"ready to play", and "easy to find" sound like BS.
It can't be _technically necessary_ to install that
in order to do those things.

With the recent Sony root kit debacle, I'm reluctant to do this.
But I can't buy a song unless I do.
Any advice?
 
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Win XP Home + SP2
When I click "Buy" on a walmart.com song, I get a pop-up that says:

"We need to update your computer. ... Here's what we need to
install on your computer: Download Manager. ... Our download
manager makes getting our song files easy -- once you buy a song
it is automatically downloaded, ready to play, and easy to find
in your Windows Media Player media library."

This is _mandatory_ before you can buy and download a song.
The parts about doing this makes it "easy to download",
"ready to play", and "easy to find" sound like BS.
It can't be _technically necessary_ to install that
in order to do those things.

With the recent Sony root kit debacle, I'm reluctant to do this.
But I can't buy a song unless I do.
Any advice?
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Don't use Wal-Mart's site? Consider an alternative, there's a great number
of them. One such example is: http://music.msn.com/ which I've personally
used and enjoyed. I did recently trial one other one but I'm reluctant to
recommend them because even though I canceled they still insisted on trying
to bill my for two months after the trial had ended. In this case I'm
personally sticking with well known sites and I tend to avoid any site that
forces me to download anything. While I doubt Wal-Mart is installing
anything as evil as a rootkit - I'd certainly not put it past any large
business who's main profits come actually from information to do more than
just install a simple download manager. I commend your choice to ask and to
be skeptical. I'd highly recommend avoiding any site that forces you to
download something just to download music. It just seems, well, a bit much
if you ask me. Even if they don't install anything bad the very idea that
they feel that they can force you/me/us to install software for the simple
act of downloading a paid for bit of ones and zeros is just a bit
presumptuous on their part.

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/

"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of
existence." - Sherlock Holmes
 
Irrespective of any music download service, either it is msn music,
yahoo music, apple itunes. you need to install their client component
in your pc to manage downloads. So I would say installing wal-mart
music install does not harm your PC. i have used it without any
problem.
 
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