texans20
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Re: Just Die
They just might. They keep settling out of court for $2500 or so but that does not recoup their legal fees, so for every case they have they end up loosing money. The record companies are getting tighter on cash as CD sales keep falling and since the RIAA isn't doing much for them I suspect to see some more record companies drop their membership.
All the major record companies have now opened up their libraries to non-DRM sales. Now it's up to us, the consumer, to start buying music.
First we said CDs are overpriced, sell them online cheap, so they did. Then we said DRM sucks, sell your music DRM free, so they did. I hope to see less pirating and more purchasing.
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| I think the moment of opportunity passed...
People want cheap and easy access to music and when the music companies failed to deliver, they turned to file sharing.
So instead of asking people to go from a $14 - $20 CD to a $10 - $15 DRM Free MP3 album, you are now asking them to go from FREE to a a $15 DRM free MP3 album and most people will balk at it.
Convenience will be the deciding factor - if the music companies make the albums cheaper and easy to buy, then they will sway more people away from piracy but giving us what we already asked for, and found, is not going to be enough at this point. |
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And look at ITUNES it's one of the most popular and lucrative pay per mp3 sites around. There are others of course, that do just fine and dandy. Simply because not everyone buys them, doesn't mean many haven't followed the legal path. Therefore, you make a broad generalization that assumes this man is in the majority. I can't say if that's true or not as there has been no research done to show how many people buy vs pirate. Still, these 99 cent mp3 stores must be doing damn well. They are still in business aren't they? Itunes seems to be making record profits, too. |
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said by PhoenixDown  :Convenience will be the deciding factor - if the music companies make the albums cheaper and easy to buy, then they will sway more people away from piracy Amazon has an mp3 store thats cheap and drm free (89 cents for some songs and I just bought an album for $8.99). I like to just search, click and download so that's what I'll be using from now on. If I can't find it there then I won't buy it. |
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DownTheShore
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said by texans20 :All the major record companies have now opened up their libraries to non-DRM sales. Now it's up to us, the consumer, to start buying music. First we said CDs are overpriced, sell them online cheap, so they did. Then we said DRM sucks, sell your music DRM free, so they did. I hope to see less pirating and more purchasing. I've always bought CD's in the past, but I've slacked off in recent years because of the costs, and frankly because my rule of thumb for LP's and CD's has always been that there have to be at least three songs on the disc (whatever its shape) that I want to have. That hasn't happened much lately - too many one-hit wonders out there now or albums of songs that all sound basically the same.
I've bought from iTunes, but they annoy me with their rules. I've started buying DRM-free MP3 downloads from Amazon instead. It's cheaper than buying the CD, no gasoline costs getting to the store, I can burn the music as I like, and I get the immediate gratification of having the music and not worrying about the damn RIAA.
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jjeffeory
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Piracy isn't the problem. Their music sucking is the problem! Frankly, I don't listen to much music anymore. |
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Kearnstd
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said by jc100 :Texan And look at ITUNES it's one of the most popular and lucrative pay per mp3 sites around. There are others of course, that do just fine and dandy. Simply because not everyone buys them, doesn't mean many haven't followed the legal path. Therefore, you make a broad generalization that assumes this man is in the majority. I can't say if that's true or not as there has been no research done to show how many people buy vs pirate. Still, these 99 cent mp3 stores must be doing damn well. They are still in business aren't they? Itunes seems to be making record profits, too. and oddly enough some record companies wanted to pull out of itunes because they think 99 cents isnt expensive enough even though they get the lion's share of that 99c.
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