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| all known music? The article states:
"...unfettered access to a database of all known music."
Why then can they not allow this for existing online music? Rhapsody certainly doesn't have EVERYTHING, and neither do any of the other services.
Also, what would happen to these businesses? They just lose? Do not pass go, do not collect $200?
I think it's an interesting idea, but besides thrashing existing businesses, who gets to add such "fees" next? The movie industry? Oh, but that's different...
At the same time, what about truly unlimited movie access??? Why won't they let Netflix (and others) put every known movie online? Would they allow the same "unfettered" access if movie folks jumped into this game? Again, same problems arise...
If Netflix (or whoever) could, and actually did, put a giant online universe of movies out for everyone, would their rates go up? Down?
Sounds like a messy mess to me... but the idea of letting every known piece of music be (legally) available is interesting.
I say that instead of taxing everyone, they make it easy and fair to get based on an opt-in service. Like many have noted, not everyone wants or needs this. Might be nice if it were an option though...
IMO, they missed the chance to do this right back when they shut down napster. They could have worked out something with those folks - $5/month and you're now a 'premium' member... and it probably would've worked. Lo-fi for free, and hi-fi plus tons more, more features, etc. for a low fee... I'd bet a large number of people would have gone for it immediately.
Now, it seems like it's almost too late for something like this to actually work - let alone "fairly" for all parties.
They had a perfect opportunity, and missed by ...how many years? Tons of people with this idea were all talking about it back then, but everyone either had their heads in the sand, or were too concerned with law$uits and making a quick buck along with their 15 minutes of fame...
Now, we have a fractured online music market - iTunes, and a dollar a song, which not everybody likes. Rhapsody, with a subscription + ability to purchase mp3's (in some cases), eMusic, with a subscription to indie music and cheap mp3s, and the ever changing field of file sharing. Sure, tons more out there, but the point is that its fractured in so many places and NONE, I repeat, NONE of the legal services have everything; which is one HUGE reason they aren't doing as well as they might (or were expected to by some).
Sure, they might as well try, but unless it's truly awesome and super easy, has EVERYTHING, and is truly fair, it will fail miserably.
If they really do make EVERYTHING available, they have a better chance.
It always makes me laugh when they gripe about the services not quite working as well as planned - well, if you have expectations of being able to find what you're after and it's simply not there, the conclusion most people reach is that it sucks! Pretty simple logic we're working with here... |
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canada | "IMO, they missed the chance to do this right back when they shut down napster. They could have worked out something with those folks - $5/month and you're now a 'premium' member... and it probably would've worked. Lo-fi for free, and hi-fi plus tons more, more features, etc. for a low fee... I'd bet a large number of people would have gone for it immediately."
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