Universal, Sony Cutting Prices on Downloaded Music

Posted by michael on Wednesday June 12, 2002 @08:49AM from the invisible-hand dept.

Don Symes writes "Sony Music and Universal appear to be getting ready to allow downloads of singles for $.99 and albums for $9.99 without crippleware or restrictions on personal copying/burning." Another semi-interesting piece submitted by several people is this propaganda from the recording industry. 2.8 million copyright-infringing CD-R's were seized in the U.S. last year (9 million world-wide); from that the IFPI extrapolates that 950 million copyright-infringing CD-R's were actually sold, world-wide. How do you get from 9 million to 950 million? Mostly hand-waving .

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HA! by sheepab · 2002-06-12 08:50 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Thats funny, Ive always gotten my MP3s for free, I thought thats what EVERYONE did? They cant compete with free, ever, PERIOD.

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Re:I'd download them! by CanSpice · 2002-06-12 15:49 · Score: 0, Flamebait

So you're complaining that it's not going to be realeased for BeOS. That's not surprising, you know, considering BeOS is a dead operating system.

What's next, you're going to complain that LA isn't available for the Commodore 64?