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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."
Yes, I would pay 5 cents a song and I currently do thanks to some kind Russians. =)
For that much, I'd want a song and dance.
"Look Lois, the two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a fat white guy who is threatened by change."
Slashdot simply isn't posting enough about Apple. I demand more Apple-related stories!!!
I used to buy a very few CDs and download most. With the rise of iTMS I buy more. At £.05 (dollar prices are almost always translated directly to pounds for things like music, grr) I'd probably buy most of my songs. But not all. Some just aren't worth that much. I don't think they're ever going to eliminate "piracy" completely, except by cutting prices to zero.
I am trolling
5 cents? Is that a new rapper? 50 cent's midget brother?
3.96 times overpriced actually :-p
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But if they did that, they wouldn't be able to sell "Now Thats What I Call Ancient Shit! Vol 4124"
Won't someone think of the executives?!
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
hmm, must resist urge....songs buy you for 5 cen....ahhhhhhhhhh
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
"So, Apple now has to run power-hungry servers with a large staff of IT guys making sure they're patched and running correctly."
I think the general consensus here is "artists and record companies should stop being so greedy." In the spirit of this goal to drive music to $0.05, perhaps IT guys should stop being greedy as well, and just work for the pure joy of providing music, rather than for a salary.
Yes, I know, IT guys have to pay rent or mortgage and support families. Yet artists and employees of record companies do, too. If they can suck it up in the new Slashdot world music order, so can IT professionals.
Sitting in my day care, the art is decopainted.
Yeah - it is called "monopoly".
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
Isn't this the same Sandy Pearlman who was in Blue Oyster Cult in the '70's? I believe he was the model for the Christopher Walken character in the now-infamous SNL parody.
All of which begs the question--would you pay 5 cents for MORE COWBELL???
I tried to read the article. I really did. But when I got to the end of the second paragraph, my natural aversion to incredibly bad writing kicked in and my mouse-hand clicked the window's close box without my conscious intent.
Peering out from under his de rigueur cap, music-industry veteran Sandy Pearlman, a former producer of the Clash and now a visiting scholar at McGill, spoke with a kind of nervous glee while describing his idea at the Canadian Music Week conference in Toronto last week.
Awful, vapid writing? You're soaking in it.
Fast Food is an interesting one because the more calories you can give to your customers cheaper, the better chance that they'll return soon to consume more. :)
It's been a long time.
There would also be questions of anti-trust involved. We wouldn't want them to become monopolists.
To answer the question that the OP states, a low legal price point that is convenient for people to buy much and which also compensates the people who worked so you could get the music is good for the industry. If so many people buy the music, there won't be free online places to download it from and so people will say "five pennies, no problem".
The suggestion that it's a good idea that the computer companies buy up record companies and become media conglomerates fills me with dread.
Well if you would take Pizza Eating 101 you would learn that I can eat many, MANY pizzas.
meep
80's rock? soo really, the record companies did you a favor. Now we don't have to listen to you cruisin down the street in your camaro blasting Great White while trying to score with high schoolers. Er i take that back, the record companies did US a favor. :)
And if you would take English 101, you would know the difference between "by" (a preposition) and "buy" (a verb).
and if i took gramer nazi 101 i might actually care
*note spellling and grammer mistakes in this post were intentional
Yes...last time I checked the Slashdot Hive Mind's position on copyright infringement did change overnight. That was very insightful of you to pick up on it.
It is a good thing you did post anonymously. I hope you also used either an open 802.11 connection (with a wireless card that you stole or can't be tracked back to you) or at least bounced your connection across 3 or more anonymous proxies. If not, I fear your life may be in danger.
Take care my friend and don't let the man keep you down! Keep up the good fight!
obviously you aren't into tantra
So a 5 cent song will break before a 99 cent song?
Yep. They don't even coat those 5-cent songs with bit-rot retardant.