Jason Levine
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USA
| Re: What a suuurrrrprise! said by kyramilan  :Why people pay $.99 for iTunes that sucks compared to the CD version I have no clue. Basically, they're paying for the convenience of getting one song when they might not want all of the songs on the CD. However, I agree with you that it is a ripoff when the song you buy comes with a ton of restrictions. I recently purchased 4 songs from the Barenaked Ladies online shop. The songs were in MP3 format, $0.99 each and didn't have any DRM built into them. I was completely satisfied with my purchase and would buy from them again.
said by kyramilan :Why not all MP3s in 256kbps and all WMA in 192kbps? Anything else is a total ripoff. And, who is to blame? The 100 million idiots that bought music from iTunes! Actually, I'd like to see something along the lines of AllOfMP3.com. You can pay $0.99 for a 192kbps, non-DRM-ed MP3, or you can opt to pay a bit more and get a higher bitrate. Of course, it won't happen because the RIAA is completely convinced that no-DRM equals instant piracy. What they don't see is that the pirates are already breaking the DRM (or simply ripping the CDs to MP3) releasing songs unencumbered by DRM will give legitimate consumers more power (and thus more incentive to buy) while not really helping pirates that much. |
