marigolds
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| In some defense of Madonna...
At least she is also offering a download from her website of the same song for $1.49.
That is a fairly reasonable price (assuming it is a high bit rate download) and could be a much faster download than finding the song on Kazaa.
Some musicians may tell their funds not to download their music from P2P, but at least she offers a reasonably priced alternative.
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| Let me guess 1.49 for how fast you can download it? Hmmmmmmm .. it took me a big 49 sec with 39 people at one time having it.. was that worth it Hell yea just to hear how bad the song really is
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$1.49 is not a reasonable price. It's either the record label's standard premium price or even over that. Considering her album (with 12-16 tracks) will sell for about $17 I consider the offer for an inferior quality, non-hard copy, burn it myself (if she lets you) track at that price is way overpriced. Fast downloads or not.
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I agree.
I really do not like kazaa or any of the others too much anymore. I would rather pay the money to buy a CD or in this case buy a good file. All of the file sharing ones have really crappy sound or something else is usually wrong with them.
"Stealing" music from the p2p networks is one thing. Someone actually buys the CD and then creates and MP3 to put up on a p2p sharing program somewhere. Downloading it because just because its free is questionable.
Now downloading it because you like to have it on an MP3 player, indexed with hundreds of other songs, or something like that is different. You can pay the $1.49 to add it to your collection, I like that idea.
If there was some place you could easily find MP3s at a good price then I would go for that. Downloading crappy versions of the song for reasons like being cheap, being lazy, or just for some pissing contest with artists is not too nice.
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marigolds
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According to Madonna's website, those who download the single get it without limitations on making their own copies. As well, you can sign up for a program to resell the single (supposedly for "big prizes").
Compared to what some companies out there want from song downloads, $1.49 is not a bad price; and the distribution system being used (through third party websites rather than directly through her site according to Madonna's current WB webpage) is at least somewhat innovative for a commerical design.
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TheWickerMan
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Sounds reasonable to me. I don't like Madonna at all, but if I did, I'd probably go for it. Or maybe not. I actually prefer to have the CD, but for those who don't, sounds like a decent alternative. |
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