I mean, killing legal online music distribution would be that easy. You find a pricepoint people like (such at . 99 a track), then get people used to it. Then, the second the service starts to take off, you jack it up.
You don't even need to jack it up much. That quarter will do. You then manage to instantly alienate customers like me, who had finally come out of the illegal p2p services to pay for music because they realized it wasn't that bad.
And the thing to remember is that if you piss off customers like me, who were just getting used to the model in the first place, we are hard to get back. Don't expect us to come running back just because you lower it back down to.99 again. Nope...you'll have to go much lower; we'll want blood.
And more than 15 bucks for albums? In a lossy compressed format with DRM? Yeah. Sure.
"$15 cd??? not the last time i checked... it's more like $0.50 for the artist for a $17-19 cd...."
You haven't checked in a while then. Or you're only shopping at Sam Goody. Most CD's can be had now for 15 or less, either from larger retailers like Target or Hasting's, or from online retailers like Amazon.
Okay, I'm going to comment on this whole "why weren't the artists trying to collect their money?" thing...and why they may not have realized they weren't getting paid.
Not every artist waits by the mailbox for their royalty check like a kid at Christmastime. Hell, I wouldn't doubt that many labels have some sort of direct deposit system set up to save on postage. Now imagine you are Sean "Puffy" Combs. You have millions of dollars. Not only that, but a majority of your income is NOT from royalties...in fact, I'm betting royalties aren't even a significant portion of his income. He makes money for producing other groups, off his own record label, of promotions (such as Xbox Live), and off a million other things.
Is it unreasonable to think that maybe he simply hadn't noticed that the deposits for royalties weren't there anymore?
For further perspective, I have a very rich in-law. He doesn't balance his checkbook. He knows the money is in there, he knows the check he's writing will not bounce, and he pretty much take's his bank's word for it when the statement comes. He looks over it, of course...but not as closely as those of us who face the actual possibility of running out of money do.
He's not anywhere as wealthy as Puffy.
I'm guessing there must have been some, because in my area there were still coolers stocked full of these bottles as of a couple days ago. I will bet dollars to pesos that at that point they didn't all even leave stores.
Then factor in how few people actually use iTunes and just threw winners away.
Personally I thought it was a great deal...tilt the bottle, make sure you have a winner, and pay 1.49 for a liter of Pepsi and a.99 cent cong. (I never saw any contest caps on bottles of less than a liter)
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I mean, killing legal online music distribution would be that easy. You find a pricepoint people like (such at . 99 a track), then get people used to it. Then, the second the service starts to take off, you jack it up.
.99 again. Nope...you'll have to go much lower; we'll want blood.
You don't even need to jack it up much. That quarter will do. You then manage to instantly alienate customers like me, who had finally come out of the illegal p2p services to pay for music because they realized it wasn't that bad.
And the thing to remember is that if you piss off customers like me, who were just getting used to the model in the first place, we are hard to get back. Don't expect us to come running back just because you lower it back down to
And more than 15 bucks for albums? In a lossy compressed format with DRM? Yeah. Sure.
"$15 cd??? not the last time i checked... it's more like $0.50 for the artist for a $17-19 cd...."
You haven't checked in a while then. Or you're only shopping at Sam Goody. Most CD's can be had now for 15 or less, either from larger retailers like Target or Hasting's, or from online retailers like Amazon.
Okay, I'm going to comment on this whole "why weren't the artists trying to collect their money?" thing...and why they may not have realized they weren't getting paid. Not every artist waits by the mailbox for their royalty check like a kid at Christmastime. Hell, I wouldn't doubt that many labels have some sort of direct deposit system set up to save on postage. Now imagine you are Sean "Puffy" Combs. You have millions of dollars. Not only that, but a majority of your income is NOT from royalties...in fact, I'm betting royalties aren't even a significant portion of his income. He makes money for producing other groups, off his own record label, of promotions (such as Xbox Live), and off a million other things. Is it unreasonable to think that maybe he simply hadn't noticed that the deposits for royalties weren't there anymore? For further perspective, I have a very rich in-law. He doesn't balance his checkbook. He knows the money is in there, he knows the check he's writing will not bounce, and he pretty much take's his bank's word for it when the statement comes. He looks over it, of course...but not as closely as those of us who face the actual possibility of running out of money do. He's not anywhere as wealthy as Puffy.
I'm guessing there must have been some, because in my area there were still coolers stocked full of these bottles as of a couple days ago. I will bet dollars to pesos that at that point they didn't all even leave stores. Then factor in how few people actually use iTunes and just threw winners away. Personally I thought it was a great deal...tilt the bottle, make sure you have a winner, and pay 1.49 for a liter of Pepsi and a .99 cent cong. (I never saw any contest caps on bottles of less than a liter)