2 Jul
2003
2 Jul
'03
8:47 p.m.
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 03:02:00PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
yep... I download maybe a handful of songs a year, usually things that I don't
even like enough to burn to CD; occasionally things that I'm curious about that
I would buy if I could find the damn things.
Mostly true, although Macrovision makes some form of
copy protection that
can get embedded in the digital data stream which is supposed to survive
becoming analog.
In other words, it screws up the audio. Nice. :-(
I don't think it's the band that's doing
this. It's the labels that have
invested money in the band, and it's the big distribution companies.
Yes, but label execs don't generally give two shits about the fans as long
as sales are up. They *do* give a shit, out of necessity, about
accommodating their top bands. So I think a letter-writing campaign to the
bands in question is more likely to have an effect.
BTW, the
above was just an example. I agree with Mark K. I don't
download any music that isn't free and legal.
I think that most people that make music don't do too much of this. I download music legally, from mp3.com, or one of these
days from iTunes for
$0.99/tune. Most of this p2p is a simple market driven reaction to the fact
that most CD's these days have only 1-2 tunes that make the money. Most of
the rest of the CD is filler. (Well, in Madonna's recent CD I think it's all
filler!) ;-)
This is very true. There's a bunch of great pop songs that come on crap
albums... "Genie in a Bottle" leaps to mind...
No one I know wants to pay $8.00/'good song',
and then get the
other 10 songs for free? $0.99 for the songs a person like sounds like a
good deal.
Yep. Pop music kind of wants to be a singles market, but the CD era killed
most of the economic incentive for selling singles because there's barely
any difference in the manufacturing / distribution cost of CDs regardless of
length - only quantity really matters.
BTW, it's now possible to set up cheap per-song paid downloads on your own
website without a lot of cost overhead and without a time-based
subscription service. Check these guys out, they've just launched and
I'm very curious to see if they succeed:
http://www.bitpass.com/learn/
not enough info posted about becoming an "earner", sadly.
But I found out about it this morning when I used it to pay $0.25 to read
an online comic. It was pretty quick to do.
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