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Phish to Sell Downloads of Concerts
zzyzx writes "Phish have a new system for distributing their music. At livephish.com they will be selling their soundboard concert recordings. Most 2-3 hour concerts will cost $10 to download in mp3 format, $13 to download in the lossless shn format. What makes this interesting is that they're putting no DRM on these files at all. How are they protecting themselves? One paragraph in their Faq: 'Live Phish Downloads relies on an honor system, and we ask that you do not abuse the unrestricted nature of these files. If you would like to see this type of delivery of shows continue and flourish, please respect our taping policy and don't abuse the system.'" The honor system has served them well in the past, what with allowing their fans to record their concerts while also selling both studio and live albums.
hello? isnt that a bit much? i know to make a cd album you gotta go through hundreds of people and companies making lots of parts of it, material costs, manufacturing costs, distributing costs, cost of having it sitting in the store. many costs i didnt put here. plus you get *something* in the end. a product. something to hold onto and look at. they are asking *TEN DOLLARS* for a download. am i the only one that sees this as a VERY greedy amount? wouldnt two dollars be a little more realistic?