"Convenience: When three plays are up, how much more difficult is it to download the song on the p2p-network-du-jour? "
Not difficult at all. But if you share them the way they are meant to be shared (keeping them in Weed format, which you are encouraged to do), then you gain a financial reward if someone buys. Cheating would only cut you out of the loop...kinda like slashing your own tires.:)
Actually, I think it's good news for artists. I got tired of having to wade through thousands of mediocre tracks by "artists" who turned out to be a kids with a pirated copy of Ejay. Mp3.com's mistake from the beginning was trying to sell people on the notion that anything of quality that held any value whatsoever could be free.
Unless it's changed, IUMA is unsigned artists. Emusic's artists are all signed to indie labels. At IUMA, any 13-year-old with a copy of Ejay can upload their "music."
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Actually, I think it's good news for artists. I got tired of having to wade through thousands of mediocre tracks by "artists" who turned out to be a kids with a pirated copy of Ejay. Mp3.com's mistake from the beginning was trying to sell people on the notion that anything of quality that held any value whatsoever could be free.
Unless it's changed, IUMA is unsigned artists. Emusic's artists are all signed to indie labels. At IUMA, any 13-year-old with a copy of Ejay can upload their "music."