| Screw the RIAA I refuse to pay $.99 a song much less $1.50.
I understand their thinking, 15 songs on a cd at around $15 so .99 cents a song is fair. WRONG
When I used to buy albums (around the time napster was big) I got artwork, jewel case, song lyrics and the cd for my $15. Now I pay for the BW, the cd to burn it to (limited amount of times) and my computer to do it on. They basically make $.99 for little more than bandwidth. They arent having to pay for shelf space, shipping, sales person to sell it to me etc etc.
They will either drop the price to something like $.25 a song, or I will just download it for free. Simple as that.
They can either have a little bit of my money or none at all |
rradina
join:2000-08-08
Chesterfield, MO | said by RadicalD :
When I used to buy albums (around the time napster was big) I got artwork, jewel case, song lyrics and the cd for my $15. Now I pay for the BW, the cd to burn it to (limited amount of times) and my computer to do it on. What do you mean by "limited amount of times". Once you burn it to a CD, can't you rip it to an MP3 without DRM? I know that might cost some sound quality but a 99 cent DRM compressed tune is already lossy quality, right? Did I misinterpret your post?
But I agree with you on the price. In fact, I think an on-line compressed DRM purchase should be half the price of buying the full-quality CD -- unless they let you also download the original uncompressed WAV file bits. Then it should be about 75% of the price since there are no almost no reproduction/distribution costs. |
