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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Re:I'd download them! by XNormal · 2002-06-12 09:06 · Score: 1, Offtopic

The cap is on the *uplink*. You can still download as much pr0n as you like...

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Re:I'd download them! by systemapex · 2002-06-12 09:10 · Score: 1, Offtopic

For some of us the cap is on the download too. 5GB per month at that.
Re:I'd download them! by dasunt · 2002-06-12 10:30 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Or the bandwidth cap would be more likely to prevent me from, oh, say downloading 3 RH install isos plus the source isos.

Not all bandwidth hogs are doing stuff that's illegal