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  1. wow,the last surviving subscriber to columbiahouse by circletimessquare · · Score: 1 · on EFF Says Burning Man Usurps Digital Rights

    i thought columbia house went the way of my simple minds cassette tape

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_House

    little did i know its still alive and kicking

    http://www.columbiahouse.com/

    well, i guess some people like getting their mail by pack mule rather than truck too

  2. Re:Make it voluntary?? by budgenator · · Score: 1 · on $5 Per Month Fee Proposed For Legal Music P2P

    Of course, the labels would be fools to accept this. I'm sure that would eat into their profits significantly.
    Yeah that's why they offer 7 DVDs for 49 cents each and half off each months selection. what will get hurt is artist's royalties which are likely to range from half to none in the flat rate scheme.

  3. Re:P2P actually does help artists by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Indie Artists Support Peer To Peer
    $500 is fewer than 50 music CDs.

    Not necessarily, if you are a member of the BMG or Columbia House music clubs you could amass quite a collection of music CD's for $500. At least I know I could have back in the day when I was on thier lists...

  4. Re:Bah. It's an old idea, and it's pretty much... by CreatureComfort · · Score: 1 · on More on Neuroscience and Marketing

    It's so much easier if "They" can just model you on a mainframe, debit your account, and ship you whatever it is you're supposed to buy from them next,

    Gee...sounds just like my Columbia House Music subscription. Although it is better now, than when they used to mail me LPs every month that had to be mailed back to them...

  5. There are other alternatives by jnd3 · · Score: 2, Informative · on Real Cuts Prices for DRM-Restricted Music

    I've bought a couple of CDs and a few individual tracks from the iTunes music store (not to mention all the freebies I've downloaded). They sound fine, even when burned onto CDs to play on the Bose in the car. It's a bit of a pain sharing them between computers (PowerBook and PC at home and PC at work), but hey, blank CDs are cheap.

    Of course, in general it's still cheaper for me to buy CDs through a service like BMG or Columbia House. I order maybe 10-20 per year from BMG and end up paying between $5 and $8 per CD. Then I can rip those myself to whatever quality I'd like and avoid the ridiculous prices that most stores charge. Sure, there's the whole shipping delay, but I'm a patient guy.

    That said, if I could import music purchased from Real's music store into iTunes (and from thence to the iPod), I'd jump on the $0.49 thing in heartbeat. But I use iTunes for everything now, and I'm not about to start running multiple different media players just for the grins of saving a few bucks. That's my choice, and I'm sticking to it.

  6. Hate to break it to ya, Been Done Already by Alzheimers · · Score: 1 · on CDs Want To Be Free

    Hate to break the news to you, but this "Free CD +S&H" scheme is old hat...

    BMG Music Serivce: 7 Free CD's (plus s&h)
    Columbia House: Join their music club, get 12CDs FREE (plus s&h)

    Or just open up any TV-Guide...or Sunday newspaper magazine...

  7. Re:The 18 thing is strange.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Apple Cuts Off Under-18 Darwin Developer

    Are there any exceptions that are POSITIVE?

    One positive thing about not being bound to a contract is that Columbia House can't force you to buy a bunch of extra CD/DVD/Videos if you're under 18.

  8. Lack of electronic purchases is to "blaim" by yerricde · · Score: 2 · on Canadian Recording Industry Claims Drop in Sales
    • $6.23 -- Retail Markup
    • $0.85 -- Co-op advertising and discounts to retailers

    The labels can do away with these by selling directly to the consumer. Mail-order music subscription services such as Bertelsmann's BMG and Columbia House already do something similar.

    • $3.34 -- Company Overhead, Distribution, and Shipping

    If they ever decided to get a Clue and sell their albums online as 192 Kbps Ogg Vorbis secure downloads, they could reduce this to the cost of Akamaized bandwidth.

  9. CDs don't cost _that_ much, thanks to Play. by yerricde · · Score: 2 · on More Napster Updates

    The FTC found that CDs cost TOO MUCH! ... If CDs costed $4.95 a piece, would we see as much piracy? NO!!!

    I don't work for Play, but Play has lots of 60% off deals. And they start you out with 15 CDs for $50 + shipping.