<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->2 songs? that'd set you back $1.98, you should check apple's newest little trick, they SELL music over the Internet! <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
And thats exactly why its going to fail. Yea sure, its technically more 'legit' but I could get the same MP3 for free off the same internet. Not to mention if I did this I would owe apple about 500 dollars, and I only have about 150 MP3 files, surprisingly, I own the album most of the stuff I have came off of.
I LOVE whats going on. Its Capitalisim in action! Evolve or Die. The RIAA has chosen (so far) to die. Independent labels eschewing 'traditional' RIAA moves (pay for play, abusive contracts, etc) have seen large growth in the Post-Napster Era. Why? They learned to use the medium to its advantage. Users might pirate music, but they probably won't pirate merchandise or concert tickets where it is much more profitable to do buisness. Eventually the big labels will need to embrace the consumer demand for downloading music, or they'll damn themselves to failure. The RIAA can't keep abusing the legal system to keep its failing buisness model alive. They are starting to give into the pay services like iTunes, Microsoft is launching one for the end of the year...
This will be a classic case study in market evolution in some years. The RIAA is trying to stop technology. Not gonna happen.
<!--QuoteBegin--SoulSkorpion+Jun 10 2003, 02:34 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (SoulSkorpion @ Jun 10 2003, 02:34 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> This was slashdotted at least two weeks ago. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Damn. I thought this was another reference to those two college guys who wrote what could be termed p2p software. I didn't realise the RIAA had done it again.
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And thats exactly why its going to fail. Yea sure, its technically more 'legit' but I could get the same MP3 for free off the same internet. Not to mention if I did this I would owe apple about 500 dollars, and I only have about 150 MP3 files, surprisingly, I own the album most of the stuff I have came off of.
This will be a classic case study in market evolution in some years. The RIAA is trying to stop technology. Not gonna happen.
Damn. I thought this was another reference to those two college guys who wrote what could be termed p2p software. I didn't realise the RIAA had done it again.
******* hypocrites. May they rot in hell.