Goober
Premium
join:2000-12-17
Naperville, IL
 ·Comcast
·WOW Internet and C..
1 edit | Increase in Alternatives
It's good to see that alternative models are popping up. Something will stick someday.
The music industry won't be the ones that will find the solution that succeeds. So, having 3rd party developers and others coming up with all these alternatives that we're seeing more and more of lately is great. |
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not-so-anonymous
@optonline.net | DRM
and the fact most DRM can be broken  all* |
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Cod
join:2000-07-05
Greensboro, NC
| reply to Goober
Re: Increase in Alternatives
I wish there was a system to pay the artists directly bypassing the labels. I'd be all for paying the artists & not pirate music as long as the money went SOLELY to the artist. Until that happens, I will be "stealing" music from the newsgroups. The labels & RIAA raped me for years in the late 80's & 90's with their price fixing (which they were convicted for) and I'm justifying my theft as getting even for paying 18 bucks a CD 10 years ago. I have over 300 CD's I've bought so I've got a ways to catch up. Eye for an eye. |
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techie
Premium
join:2003-06-18
Canada
clubs: | ...
It's a gateway p2p app. |
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stateq2
J Dilla
Premium
join:2003-03-27
Jackson, MS | forget this
more labels should join magnatune |
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Karl Bode
News Guy
join:2000-03-02 | Yeah I really like their model quite a bit.... |
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KeepOnRockin
Music Lover Forever
Premium
join:2002-11-08
Beaverton, OR | reply to stateq2
said by article:
Users can download tracks and play them three times, but upon a fourth listen they're prompted to pay for the track. No, thanks! |
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DrewCapu
Giant Diehard
join:2001-12-19
California
clubs: | Instead of users earning money
... by passing tracks to friends,
Can I earn a Free iPod instead?  |
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Slidetbone
Mazin Go
Premium
join:2002-11-10
Land O Lakes, FL
| reply to Cod
Re: Increase in Alternatives
said by Cod  :I wish there was a system to pay the artists directly bypassing the labels. I second that. The RIAA deserves not a single penny! Hope there are more alternatives like this one. |
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a1808991020
join:2004-11-15
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how do you figure the label shouldn't get any money, there the ones taking all the risk its there money making the albums and promoting them. they are entitled to a return on there investment. and considering they are the ones taking all the risk they are entitled to the majority of the profits |
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Slidetbone
Mazin Go
Premium
join:2002-11-10
Land O Lakes, FL
| said by a1808991020 :how do you figure the label shouldn't get any money, there the ones taking all the risk its there money making the albums and promoting them. they are entitled to a return on there investment. and considering they are the ones taking all the risk they are entitled to the majority of the profits So...do you think it is fair that an artist selling gold and platinum sales gets about 2 to 4% of the profit while the label gets 40 to 70%?
Whilst the labels are putting the face and investment to promote the artist, they do not pay them well for it. It is to assume that the album will get the promotion and exposure to get the artists gigs. And that there is another issue as the artist will be going through a promoter that will charge him another percentage of the total ticket sales. And even that depends on the relationship he has with the "middlemen".
Do the numbers....the multinationals are sucking the artists dry.
Indies are fairing better. That is why RIAA places the blame on their slump in sales to P2P when in fact their product realls sucks and the indies are capitalizing on that hole. |
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scareg
join:2003-10-27
Walla Walla, WA | but.......
What's to stop me downloading the file and using a wav file recording program to record the song and burning it to cd? |
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xirian
Premium
join:2003-01-26
Beacon, NY | reply to DrewCapu
Re: Instead of users earning money
only if you refer 348478 people and complete 99 offers. |
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aztecnology
O Rly?
Premium
join:2003-02-12
Murrieta, CA
 ·Verizon FIOS
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Re: but.......
said by scareg :What's to stop me downloading the file and using a wav file recording program to record the song and burning it to cd? Digital elves encoded within...
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boogi man
join:2001-11-13
Apo, AE
clubs:  | reply to scareg
One could but why go through the trouble? Is you time worthless? Mine isn't. Where I don't agree with what they do or how they do it I don't have the time to steal it's just easier to be selective at iTunes or get cheap CD's from Wally World |
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tdkyo
join:2002-12-07
Rochester, NY | Useless P2P
This software is crap IMO. DRM in this program? That's worse than KaZaA full of spywares. |
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Anon15
@rr.com | reply to a1808991020
Re: Increase in Alternatives
The risks the RIAA take is in pushing off the "Ashlee Simpsons" of the world, as legitimate artists, and expecting us to pay $15-$20 for a CD of this crap.
When you are selling "TRUE" talent, there is NO risk! |
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lupinia
Premium
join:2004-08-24
Harrisonburg, VA
| reply to tdkyo
Re: Useless P2P
The point is that other music distibution models are being created, eventually we'll get one that will go mainstream. There will always be piracy, but a lot of would-be pirates would pay for their music if they thought it was priced and distributed fairly.
Personally, if CDs drop to an average cost of $8 each (for a 15-song CD or so), I'd buy more of them. |
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jnasc770
join:2001-01-04
Riverside, RI | WEED..hehe
Can you smoke it after you install it.....:D |
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Vvian Kalyss
join:2003-10-14
Stage 5.0
clubs:
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Re: but.......
I fail to see how other (already existing) media players (assuming files downloaded from Weed can only be played on proprietary players) will even care about DRM. Weed player -> digital output (or even better, a sound capture program) -> record -> save -> hey presto, naked mp3.
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