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Vivendi Offering MP3 Song for Sale

Posted by timothy on from the needs-to-actually-be-a-good-song-too dept.

pmorelli writes: "Maybe there's hope for the media dinosaurs yet: According to News.com, Vivendi is teaming up with Maverick Records, MP3.com, RollingStone.com, GetMusic.com and MP4.com to offer a remix of a Meshell Ndegeocello track, 'Earth,' for $0.99 online. No restrictions, just a plain old MP3. Even though I'm not the biggest fan of her stuff, I just may pony up a whole buck to economically encourage this sort of behavior."

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  1. This could be a good thing by dweezle · · Score: 5, Interesting

    OK the price is a little high and she's not a big, big name, but you get an unprotected download to do with as you please.
    So buy it and show support for the concept, check out the quality and if you're happy with that then send nice feedback
    as a customer(lower price, different artist, etc) and give them a chance.

    --
    In a time of universal lies, Telling the Truth is a revolutionary act - George Orwell
  2. set-up by asv108 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I really have no clue who the artist is but I can already hear what the RIAA will say. "We tried to sell MP3's on the Internet but nobody bought them because there was no digital rights management." "This is why we need the Hollings bill!"

  3. Re:But at 192k sampling rate. by fmaxwell · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The revolution here is that they're selling individual songs. Imagine if this gets popular.

    They did sell individual songs. It did get popular. Ever heard of a "45"?

    CDs came out and the record companies used it as an excuse to double prices while eliminating sales of singles. (3" CD singles were stillborn.)

    People have a chance to show they approve of a tenative first step, and your first reaction is to bitch and moan about how it's not what YOU want.

    I don't approve. It's not what I want. And judging by the moderation my message got, I'm not the only one that feels that way. Hell yes, I'll "bitch and moan" when they try to give me a choice between copy protected CDs or low quality MP3s.

    Well shut up

    Why? Because I have a different opinion than you? Because I don't think that this is a "good thing"? Is that how you speak to anyone who disagrees with you? My response: Get bent.