Would You Pay 5 Cents For a Song?

irikar writes "An academic at McGill University has a simple plan to stop the plague of unauthorized music downloads on the Internet. But it entails changing the entire music industry as we know it, and Apple Computers, which may have the power to make the change, is listening."

Comments

Heh

[Neil Blender]

I'm sure that's still too much for many a Slashbot.

Typical Candian socialist crap

[SamSeaborn]

This idea is very typical of my countrymen. The left-wing socialist philosophy consistently preaches that competition and independent entrepeneurship is a bad thing.

That all music should be distributed by one large omnipotent organization and should be of minimal cost to the user. I'm surprised the writer didn't propose that all music should be maintained and distributed by the government like employment insurance.

What a bunch of bunk.

Sam

No

[Apreche]

I'll pay um, 0 cents a song. Maybe, just maybe if they had a service with every song ever, with perfect metadata and organization, at high bitrate, and super fast reliable downloads, without DRM of any sort. Then and only then I might just pay a fee like 1 cent a song. Or something like 50 bucks a year for as much as I can download. I should be able to download as many as I want at a time as well. Recorded music has no value, even at 5 cents a song its a rip off. Play more concerts I will go to them. At the current rate there's a decent concert I can go to once every few months. There should be at least 2 a week in any civilized area.

Oh, and all the money should go to the artist. Remove the obsolete middle man.