bigjimc
join:2003-04-21
Middleboro, MA | Isn't It Amazing Well, if AllofMP3 proved one thing, it is that music downloads could be done for pennies. So selling them DRM free for $0.39 each would still be a 200% margin (even after giving the artist $0.05 per download). An album for $2.49 would be a great deal and I would pay to download a lot.
For now I would use a service that ships CDs for $5.99 and rip them myself for my own personal use.
As a side note, doesn't anyone remember going to Kmart and reaching through the hole in the clear glass case of 45s (single record for the young people) and having to get a clerk to open and grab the 45 you wanted? I remember paying $0.99 per 45. I guess $0.99 per download is a discount. (Sarcasm) |
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| said by bigjimc:For now I would use a service that ships CDs for $5.99 and rip them myself for my own personal use. Kind of like my preference. I do buy the occasional new CD, but most times I buy used CDs. They are just as good as the originals and cost much less. One that I am looking at on eBay now (a Wiggles CD for my son) will likely cost me about $5 including shipping. That's for 18 tracks of music (and 10 Introduction tracks), so the cost per song is 28 cents. Not too shabby. Especially since I will be getting the music in the format that I want, at the bit rate that I want, with no DRM, and with a CD of the full-quality music to use as a backup. |
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said by bigjimc:Well, if AllofMP3 proved one thing, it is that music downloads could be done for pennies.
Well, Napster (the original) and every P2P network that has come along since proved that music downloads could be done for free......and the artists saw just as much return on those free downloads as they did on the AllOfMP3 purchases.
I like the idea AllOfMP3 had, as far as the consumer goes. DRM free, reasonable pricing, etc.
But when you break it right down, they were turning a 100% profit off the same pirated works you could download for free.
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bigjimc
join:2003-04-21
Middleboro, MA | It can't be free.
Someone has to set up and maintain the website/servers. That costs money.
Someone has to rip the music and make sure it is the song and not cut off or not bass boosted or all the other issues of P2P. All that does cost money.
What about setting up a call center outside the US to answer all the irate phone calls. That costs money.
And then the companies deserve to make money. After all it is a business. The 1000% margin is a bit much (call it jealousy) though.
As far as the same pirated works that you could download for free. No. It is the same pirated works you could steal for free.
If the record companies would lower their pricing and remove the DRM. I would stop buying CDs.
PS: "BAN THE BOX" |
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Hey! that was 2 songs for $0.99, 1 good one on side A, 1 so-so one on side B.
The young people won't get it, unless their parents are old enough to have one laying around |
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