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June 19, 2007 at 3:21 pm #132692Leapy LeoMemberAnna;192694 wrote:It’s just entirely dependant on what you’re downloading, not ALL music is illegal to download. Some music groups encourage the downloading of their music (to smaller groups, it’s a great way to become known), others prohibit it (usually large record labels).
Say I were to release an album, I don’t have a record deal, and my music isn’t very popular yet, so I hereby encourage everyone to download my music. 🙂
See? Just depends on what you’re downloading. And since topramen hasn’t actually named any of the music he seeks to download, we’ll assume he’s “innocent”. 😉
Didn’t a high profile figure in the music industry suggest recently that a solution to the “free” downloading problem maybe to setup a site where it is legal to download music for nothing but to pay the artists out of the revenue that the advertisers attracted to such a busy site would attract.
It seems like a good solution to me as free downloads are not about to just go away; but I havn’t heard the idea mooted around for several months so I don’t know if it has died in the pipeline stage.
It would seem to be a shame if it has as this seems to be one way of keeping everybody happy.
June 19, 2007 at 3:21 pm #132681DavidParticipant£9 – £12 is cheap? That’s $17.70 – $23.60 USD, theres no way I’d ever pay that much for 12 songs. I like to have *a lot* of music, and that’s just not worth it. That’s why the iTunes model works.
June 19, 2007 at 8:48 pm #132687MrEggsaladParticipant@David 220146 wrote:
£9 – £12 is cheap?
Compared to £14 and £18, it is. But wow..that’s like really costly.
iTunes is good, except still for most of their songs it’s iPod only. I like their new DRM free stuff they have, many more people would buy music if there weren’t so many restrictions.
June 19, 2007 at 11:04 pm #132680DavidParticipantI’ve always rationalized it this way; I was at the store a few weeks ago looking at albums, most were priced between $15 and $20. I didn’t buy a single one, didn’t even come close. But if they were $5, I’d have easily bought 4, if not more. I’d also buy them far more frequently, since it’d only be $5. To the point where I don’t think I’d bother exhausting other channels, I’d throw down the $5 if I couldn’t find something after a bit of searching.
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