Rent Music Over the Net

NerveGas writes: "Financial Times is reporting that two competing services, both backed by major music labels, are about to offer legal music downloads. For $9.95 per month, you can download up to 100 songs per month. The catch? Cancel your service, and you lose the ability to hear *any* of the songs that you've downloaded. There are other caveats, as well - but at least it's a start." So what happens after you've got your hard drive filled with rented music and the monthly fee goes up to $199.95/month? Pay up, or lose it all...

Comments

Re:Why rent when you can buy?

[Aqua OS X]

I'd rather not support RIAA garbage in general. I'm sick of these sad sack stories about "the poor artists." Once the RIAA decides to start promoting music that is not crap-tastical I will open my wallet. However as long as boy bands, and superficial teen punk bands dominate the air waves (singing songs about girl friends had, lost or desired...gag) I will not open my GD wallet. No way in hell.

I'd rather give my money to astralwerks, ninja tune, or any other label that is not tied to the the big 5 and is promoting REAL music, or at least catchy crap pop with lyrics that f'n mean something. Shess... I'm not asking for much.

The RIAA is going to need to learn how to change how they do business. The RIAA is about as sociological as my left butt cheek... and it makes me sick. If big 5 lables would stop looking at current profits, they could create a new model to assure future profits without pissing people off. However, it's apparently a sin to tell shareholders that earnings are going to be a bit down this year due to a directional shift.

Shess...don't you just love how big $$$ holds back progress. I'm surprised we all still don't have 8 tracks.