And virtually no [top quality] music would be made, because the money that aomp3.com (even doubling the fee) pays to the artists doesn't even begin to pay for the gas to get to the studio, let alone pesky details like eating and buying instruments.
I know plenty of top quality music made for less that you alledge here. It doesn't cost hundreds of thousands of dollars for Joe Blow Record FatCat to make Ashley Simpson's garbage. And I think we all know most artists only get a few pennies from a buck from iTunes anyways, except for the indies.
As for emusic.com, sure a great site as well but as long as the Fat Cat Record Labels won't sign on it's not gonna catch on.
You have an awful lot of faith in humanity. With no DRM, why would the majority of people have paid for it when they could just get it from their buddy for free? In an ideal world, yeah, something like that could work, but the reality is that humanity is greedy and flawed.
You are right humanity is greedy and flawed. Look at the Fat Cat Record cronies you are defending. The fact is DRM's can be circumvented. All it does is make it a pain to use for people that actually buys the music. If they had just bought up napster back then and charged 10 bucks, there would have been nothing else. People would have used it because it was all there was. The only reason all these other ones popped up is the PR that goes out everytime the RIAA goes on a sue fest.
Consumers want all you can eat and want to own the music. What good are music files if you can't burn them to a CD, take them to a friend's, whatever. This DRM stuff is dumb dumb dumb. The ideal thing would have been to charge $10/month for the original Napster when it first came out. People would have paid it and the RIAA croneys would have made money hand over fist without even setting up any servers or anything.
Now the best we can hope for is something like that Lindows fellow set up. $.88 and no DRM just a good ol MP3.
For now I will stick with Allofmp3.com The Russians got it right on that one. It's cheap, you can choose the format you want, and no DRM. If someone in the US were allowed to do the same thing (even charging double allofmp3's rates) tons of music would be sold. TONS.
When did it get taken down. I just put on some torrents from there less than an hour ago without a problem. Site seems to be Slashdotted now so I can't tell whats going on.
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Looks like someone broke your precious DRM already.
I know plenty of top quality music made for less that you alledge here. It doesn't cost hundreds of thousands of dollars for Joe Blow Record FatCat to make Ashley Simpson's garbage. And I think we all know most artists only get a few pennies from a buck from iTunes anyways, except for the indies.
As for emusic.com, sure a great site as well but as long as the Fat Cat Record Labels won't sign on it's not gonna catch on.
You have an awful lot of faith in humanity. With no DRM, why would the majority of people have paid for it when they could just get it from their buddy for free? In an ideal world, yeah, something like that could work, but the reality is that humanity is greedy and flawed. You are right humanity is greedy and flawed. Look at the Fat Cat Record cronies you are defending. The fact is DRM's can be circumvented. All it does is make it a pain to use for people that actually buys the music. If they had just bought up napster back then and charged 10 bucks, there would have been nothing else. People would have used it because it was all there was. The only reason all these other ones popped up is the PR that goes out everytime the RIAA goes on a sue fest.
Now the best we can hope for is something like that Lindows fellow set up. $.88 and no DRM just a good ol MP3.
For now I will stick with Allofmp3.com The Russians got it right on that one. It's cheap, you can choose the format you want, and no DRM. If someone in the US were allowed to do the same thing (even charging double allofmp3's rates) tons of music would be sold. TONS.
Macminicolo.com has been up for some time, since launch day as far as I can tell.
When did it get taken down. I just put on some torrents from there less than an hour ago without a problem. Site seems to be Slashdotted now so I can't tell whats going on.
As did I my friend
Well it's true. Using XP for more than 15 minutes is painful in most cases. Its multitasking capabilities are subpar to say the least for one thing.