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MTV enters digital music market
KevinRemhof writes "MTV has signed a deal with Diamond Multimedia subsidiary RioPort. They are going to sell digital music on MTV.com, VH1.com, and other MTV sites. They will share profits with RioPort. " Additionally, MTV also gets a piece of RioPort-financial details not disclosed, of course.
Posted by Solar Jetman:
That is the big question, IMHO. Who is going to buy singles for 99 cents... or even a dime for that matter? And what happens when my drive crashes or the download fails? The cybersavvy might know what to do but the average Joe can't even program a VCR let alone navigate the complexities.
The average Joe would pay, because the average Joe can find www.mtv.com a lot easier than an underground mp3 site. But the average Joe is also on a modem, and would get disconnected, etc. fairly often. I would imagine that the site will have some way to deal with this -- not charging until download completes, etc. As for hard drive crashes, tough luck...I don't get a refund from record companies when I lose a cd.
But here's a question: why can't radio stations, who have a license or something to broadcast 'singles' over the air, 'broadcast' them over the net via mp3 for free?
MTV.com are the assh*les that tried a scheme- our-site
8 4.html
(or should I say scam) to charge ISPs for access
to their wonderful pompous
we're-so-so-cool-we-should-charge-you-to-access
http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/7
They've also pulled a scam where the drummed up
publicity by pretending they're site got hacked
just to promote the MTV Video Awards show....
I'm sorry but I hate MTV. They don't play music
video anymore and they have single-handedly
commercialized every tiny aspect of youth culture
and pimped it all out to Pepsi and AT&T ad execs.
F*ckers!
Whenever you download an MTVMP3 (catchy, ain't it)? You will start to hear the song, but it will be overlaid with giggling teenage girls requesting the song, along with some frat guy talking about how "that song rawks", and halfway through the song some halfwit Veejay (MP3jay) will stop the song and suddenly you'll be taken to an excerpt of MTV's "the real world."
And a 2:20 song will suddenly be an 8 mb download.
I freakin' can't wait. The revolution will be pre-packaged and sold in styrofoam containers.
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The article mentions allowing the buyers to download SDMI compliant music, it does not really say you can download mp3s. Are there even any SDMI compliant portable players out yet? I thought they were not suppost to come out until Christmas at the earliest. Also are Rios able to play SDMI compliant stuff or did the evil industry end up trying to make it SDMI or mp3 but not both?
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Is it just me or does this smell like MSNBC fodder. All a Heart and Minds game to keep investors from bailing over free music.
Expect a little help
"Our audience demands and expects that we help them download music. RioPort provides us with the opportunity to be able to do so in a secure and easy way that is SDMI compliant," MTV Networks Online president Fred Seibert said in a release. "With this agreement, RioPort is our private label download solution, aggregating content, providing music management software, and licensing and marketing the production of consumer hardware devices."
Translation : "See, We will/still have control over distribution"
Reality: The horses have eaten their children.
my2c
Since when can MTV distribute music directly?
Are they talking about the same music the RIAA
presses on CD and sells to us for $8 too much?I can't imagine MTV having any rights except to distribute videos on-air only.
Better living through money.